Quotes about Society

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

there seemed to be a higher code of ethics and sisterliness among those prostitutes than among numerous ladies of the church who have more men for kicks than the prostitutes have for pay.

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.

Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. —PLATO, The Republic

That which is not in the interests of the hive cannot be in the interests of the bee.

Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women?

None of them was willing to be a girl, he said. You can see why not. I know, right? I don't blame them, she said with a hard edge to her voice. Being a girl is the pits, trust me.

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