Society quotes

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

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.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

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

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

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.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

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

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.