Quotes about 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.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.