society Quotes

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

There will always be an underground.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.