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Society Quotes


"Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!"


"The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!"


"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"



"She wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare."



"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."


"The world needs someone they can admire from a distance, from a very far distance."


"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"


"When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!"


"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."


"Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important."


"The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt."


"If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution."


"Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!"


"The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge."



"Let us restore trust back to our society."


"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."


"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."


"Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture."


"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"


"I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president."


"In reality the concept of 'other nation' is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!"



"There are people that are to champion the campaign and advocacy against the cycle of ungodliness and injustice in every nation."


"An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!"


"The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor."



"Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say."What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference."


"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"


"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."


"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"


"How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications."


"A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment."


"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."


"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."


"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."


"If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!"


"Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!"


"Mags seemed to attract trouble wherever she went. The Raploch Estate in Stirling was a nice backdrop, a middleclass place to live and bring up your kids until the scourge of drugs took a grip of its sons and daughters, like any other quiet township. The more the people needed drugs, the rougher and more violent the place became."


"Dating isn't a natural need, it is a social want."


"The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we consider unimpeachable and idealized and beautiful. Because every strength is a weakness, if given enough time."


"When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don't just shun them; don't kill them! Don't curse them; don't harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be careful!"
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