Quotes About Society

Only in this connection of knowledge and social action can education generate the understanding... necessary for the continued existence of democracy.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

all right we are two nations

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin,Before polygamy was made a sin.

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.