Quotes About Society

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

It made natural headlines. Prostitutes being murdered suggested a titillating story. Moreover, citizens, living in nice safe houses, whose wives and daughters were never alone on the streets could be reassured.

Wherever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins"—John Locke.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase the good old days has passed from cliché to self-parody.

Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.

You gotta love a country where there are rules for being poor, and rich people make them.