Quotes About Society

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.