Quotes about Society

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Only one thing I'll say for the people watching television, the millions and millions of the One Eye: they're not hurting anyone while they're sitting in front of that Eye. But neither was Japhy….

I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Until then there is a lugubrious seriousness I love in all of this.

After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Laws are inoperative in war

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.