Quotes about Society

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.

it is the most Catholic country in the world—more Catholic than Ireland, and certainly much more so than the Vatican.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought them only ruin and abandonment.

No man can have society upon his own terms.