Society quotes

It is not a fragrant world.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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.

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

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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

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