Quotes about Society
If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
— Robert Brault
What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.
— LM Montgomery
Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.
— LM Montgomery
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
— Alice Walker
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
— Aldous Huxley
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
— Aldous Huxley
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
— Ronald Reagan
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
— Aristotle
In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.
— Ravi Zacharias
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
— Dorothy Day