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Quotes About Society

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.
~ Amber Hollibaugh
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
~ Ambrose Bierce
That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
~ Anna Quindlen
The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.
~ Anuj
Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.
~ Benjamin Creme
Change is constant in a progressive country.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
~ Bertrand Russell
I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.
~ Betty Friedan
Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.
~ Betty Jane Wylie
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
~ Bill Moyers
It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.
~ Bruce Bickford
The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.
~ Cassandra Clare
Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.
~ Charles A. Reich
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
~ Charles Kuralt
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
~ Christina Stead
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
~ Clive Owen
Progressivism is essentially about privatizing morality and socializing the costs of immorality, in such a way that big business can profit from the former and big government can profit from the latter.
~ Edward Feser
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.
~ Edward Gibbon
We did politics awfully well. The problem with that is there may have been something to the fact that people would rather watch space monsters, enigmas, and anomalies than politics.
~ Edward Gross