society Quotes

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

All religions have been made by men.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.