Famous society quotations

   If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever.  Nice Word by George Orwell

   Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.  Meaningful Quotation by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the Pitying, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.  Good Quote by George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, 1950

   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.  Wise Phrase by Barbara Jordan

   In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.  Wise Phrase by Jack Horner, on the eighty years between Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb, in

   If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.  Famous Saying by Oliver Herford

   In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.  Nice Word by Carl Sandburg, New York Post, 9 September 1960

   Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.  Meaningful Quotation by Erik Pepke

   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.  Good Quote by George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

   I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.  Wise Phrase by D.H. Lawrence

   The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.  Wise Phrase by John Fischer

   The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.  Famous Saying by Marcus Aurelius

   Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.  Nice Word by Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death

   The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.  Meaningful Quotation by Harold J. Laski

   In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.  Good Quote by Kin Hubbard

   I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.  Wise Phrase by Stephen Vincent Benét

   Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.  Wise Phrase by Charles Wagner

   The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.  Famous Saying by Erich Fromm

   Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.  Nice Word by Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

   You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.  Meaningful Quotation by Charles Kuralt

   Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.  Good Quote by Thurman Arnold

   In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.  Wise Phrase by Robert Greene Ingersoll, The New Testament, Some Reasons Why, 1881

   I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.  Wise Phrase by Lady Bird Johnson

   Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe that we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra.  Famous Saying by Terri Guillemets

   The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.  Nice Word by Paul Valery



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