Quotes About Society

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Jongens vertrouwden steeds op hun fysieke krachten om problemen op te lossen, terwijl meisjes eerder hun verstand gebruikten.

Lady Pauline arched an eyebrow. "It didn't stop you throwing people into moats.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

Some folks are born made to wave the flag;Ooh, they're red, white, and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"They point the cannon at you.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no fortunate one.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1,000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?

by the state of the domestic

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.

wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

And, just as in the Roman Empire the rich had found ways of avoiding paying taxes, so also now the main burden fell upon the mass of the population. Thus, in Commynes's words, 'it was pitiful to see and learn about the poverty of the people.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

Now, I'd like to ask people in the room, please raise your hand if you have not broken a law, any law, in the past month... That's the kind of society I want to build. I want to guarantee — with physics and mathematics, not with laws — that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.

The very thought of being gay gave me chills. Not because of what I thought of it, but for what others would.

The age is dull and mean. Men creep,Not walk.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.