Quotes about Society

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.