Quotes about Society
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
- Herbert Hoover
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
- John Lennon
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
- Grover Cleveland
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
- Conan O'Brien