Quotes About Society

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.