Quotes About Society

We've elevated the secondary impulses over the primary ones: national defense, self-reliance, family, and, most basic of all, reproductive activity. If you don't "go forth and multiply" you can't afford all those secondary-impulse programs, like lifelong welfare, whose costs are multiplying a lot faster than you are.

The free world is shuffling into a psychological bondage whose chains are mostly of our own making.

Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem. He didn't declare himself president; America chose him.

The cradle-to-grave welfare society enfeebles the citizenry to such a degree you can never generate enough money.

Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can't bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will cease to innovate, and then stagnate, and then decline, very fast. As American universities, British playwrights, and Australian judges once understood, the 'safe space' is where cultures go to die.

A dependence on immigration from very limited and particular sources is not a strength but a weakness.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Naturally society cherished itself alone; it prized what everyone agreed was precious, despised what everyone agreed was despicable, and ignored what no one mentioned-all to its own enhancement, and with the loud view that these bubbles and vapors were eternal and universal.

Most humans who were ever alive lived inside a single culture that had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years.

La falta de relaciones personales es la auténtica enfermedad de nuestro siglo:

Hoy observamos con mucha frecuencia un deterioro de la cultura de la conversación.

The best of liberalism is too good to be left to the liberals

Frightened people become angry people—as history teaches us again and again.

I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second).

These are the end products of the Masterminds of Safety and Ethics, bulked up on cheese that contains no cheese, chips fried in oil that isn't really oil, overcooked gray disks of what might once upon a time have been meat, a steady diet of Ho-Hos and muffins, butterless popcorn, sugarless soda, flavorless light beer. A docile, uncomprehending herd, led slowly to a dumb, lingering, and joyless slaughter.

I love the saying "Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy.

Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London is invaluable. As is Nicolas Freleng's The Kitchen, David Blum's Flash in the Pan, the Batterberrys' fine account of American restaurant history, On the Town in New York, and Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

At the time of their deaths, three out of five Russian men, I am told, are found to have a blood-alcohol level exceeding what one needs to qualify for a DWI.

Apparently, only Communists get to make money in Cambodia.

Just being able to talk about this issue...is a privilege, subsidized in a yin/yang sort of a way, somewhere, by somebody taking it in the neck

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.