Quotes About Society

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

My people are Americans. My time is today.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.