Quotes about Society
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
— Henry David Thoreau
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
— Conan O'Brien
I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.
— George Clooney
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people
— Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
Politics is applesauce.
— Will Rogers