Quotes about Society

Real trouble doesn't begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature. Boredom will drive even quietminded people down paths they never imagined.

And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.

What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.

Concentrated populations of the deranged assume certain powers. It has an unsettling effect. You spend some time in a nuthouse and you'll see.

He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

There's a bad time coming, boys, there's a bad time coming! If things go on as they are, there's nothing lies in the future but death and destruction, for these industrial masses.

She was nobody, there was no reality in herself, the reality was all outside of her, and she must apply herself to it.

But beneath the populace of pleasure lay the populace of work, grim, grimy, and rather terrible.

When Clifford became really roused in his feelings about the common people, Connie was frightened. There was something devastatingly true in what he said. But it was a truth that killed.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.