412 quotes found
“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”
“War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.”
“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our persona and how we should communicate appropriately and how we portrait ourse...”
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build...”
“No social stability without individual stability.”
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
“Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miser...”
“I think the iPod is the true face of Republican politics, and Im in favor of the music industry standing up proud and saying it out loud: We in the Chiclet-manufacturing business are not about soc...”
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”
“Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism ...”
“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself t...”
“We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.”
“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.”
“I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems t...”
“Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do no...”
“Artists don't create society, they reflect it”
