“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 get himself five miles to work and back each day.”
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“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.”
“It is not a fragrant world.”
“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”
“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”
“What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?”
“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.”
“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.”
“Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.”
“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”
“Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.”
“Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.”
“You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.”
“The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.”
“People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.”
“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.”
“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
“In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.”
“It is good for society to have this introspection.”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.”
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”