Quotes about Society

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Politics is applesauce.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.

From such a society a committee might be appointed, whose business it should be to procure all the information they could upon the subject, to receive contributions, to enquire into the characters, tempers, abilities and religious views of the missionaries, and also to provide them with necessaries for their undertakings.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.