| Quote 125 | In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. |
| Quote 163 | Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mist... |
| Quote 352 | It is not a fragrant world.
- Raymond Chandler |
| Quote 398 | How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its you... |
| Quote 676 | Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. |
| Quote 842 | A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. |
| Quote 948 | Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. |
| Quote 1235 | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |
| Quote 1266 | Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. |
| Quote 1586 | Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. |
| Quote 1618 | Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to g... |
| Quote 1820 | It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. |
| Quote 2089 | Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. |
| Quote 2341 | Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. |
| Quote 2960 | Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a m... |
| Quote 3266 | One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. |
| Quote 3340 | Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. |
| Quote 3458 | The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. |
| Quote 3795 | There is more to life than increasing its speed. |
| Quote 4080 | It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. |
| Quote 4282 | Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. |
| Quote 4590 | Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. |
| Quote 7670 | Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. |
| Quote 7702 | The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. |
| Quote 7774 | I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. |
| Quote 7950 | We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. |
| Quote 8154 | The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. |
| Quote 8433 | An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. |
| Quote 8794 | You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. |
| Quote 8859 | Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. |
| Quote 8863 | To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. |
| Quote 8930 | If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a... |
| Quote 9032 | The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. |
| Quote 9054 | The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. |
| Quote 9124 | What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? |
| Quote 9239 | Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. |
| Quote 9367 | 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... |
| Quote 9622 | You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. |
| Quote 9713 | Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. |
| Quote 9824 | People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. |
| Quote 10185 | What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? |
| Quote 10312 | Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. |
| Quote 10517 | The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. |
| Quote 10696 | Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. |
| Quote 10737 | A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. |
| Quote 10809 | You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. |
| Quote 10953 | We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. |
| Quote 11068 | The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we hav... |
| Quote 11137 | Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. |
| Quote 11357 | Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. |
| Quote 11400 | The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. |
| Quote 11536 | It is good for society to have this introspection. |
| Quote 11673 | Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society. |
| Quote 11746 | In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. |
| Quote 11751 | I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. |
| Quote 11852 | Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. |
| Quote 11938 | The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. |
| Quote 12029 | Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. |
| Quote 12101 | No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. |
| Quote 12371 | The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activit... |
| Quote 12786 | Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human socie... |
| Quote 13152 | Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. |