Quotes About Society

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

As the word 'tolerance' grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.