Quotes About Society

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.