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Quotes About Society

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.
~ Mel Robbins
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
~ Rajneesh
We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.
~ Roxane Gay
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
~ Frederick Osborn
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
~ Simon Newcomb
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.
~ Al Gore
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
~ Alan Ball
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time
~ Alan Watts
As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.
~ Andrew Niccol
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
~ Antonio Negri
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
~ Bruce Paltrow
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I'm so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn't the solution as well.
~ LeBron James
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
~ Mark Twain
It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.
~ Mary Blakely
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
~ Paul Hawken
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
~ Pierre Trudeau
We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.
~ Richard Patrick
Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.
~ Eleanor Smeal
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe