“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
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“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”
“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.”
“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”
“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.”
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
“The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”
“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”
“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”
“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.”
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”
“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”
“Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.”
“Society therefore is an ancient as the world.”