Quotes About Society

Caste coalitions will disintegrate in front of good governance.

The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier and make that possible.

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

I think governments can't do much.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

People are less grateful than they used to be.