Quotes About Society

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

I don't think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.