Society Quotes

» One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

» The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

» You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

» Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

» Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

» Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

» In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

» Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

» You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

» The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

» A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

» The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

» Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

» Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

» Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

» What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

» It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

» It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

» The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

» The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

» This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

» Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

» We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

» There is more to life than increasing its speed.

» You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

» The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

» How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

» Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

» Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

» It is not a fragrant world.

» Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

» Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

» Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

» Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

» Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

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