This Society Quotes

#1. If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#2. Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns.

William Gibson

#3. We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

Marge Piercy

#4. Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Kate Millett

#5. When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.

Doug Stanhope

#6. At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Whittaker Chambers

#7. When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

Bryan Brown

#8. I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Mike Tyson

#9. More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

Brian Lamb

#10. In this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.

Angela Davis

#11. in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. 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.

Tupac Shakur

#13. I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Steven Seagal

#14. Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

#15. The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.

Derek R. Audette

#16. This society of 'creatures that once were men' had one fine characteristic - no one of them endeavored to make out that he was better than the others, nor compelled the others to acknowledge his superiority.

Maxim Gorky

#17. Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

Inga Muscio

#18. We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect; this is costing us lives.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#19. There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

Marianne Williamson

#20. Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

Bassem Youssef

#21. Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.

Cesar Chavez

#22. In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Andrej Pejic

#23. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

Valerie Solanas

#24. I see what's going on," I said. "You're confusing beauty with this society's current idea of perfection of visual form.

A.M. Jenkins

#25. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

Ahad Ha'am

#26. I am honest, and in this society that happens to be constituted as mean.

Eva Morgan

#27. A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

Alexander Hamilton

#28. Who, despite the pretensions of this society,
can sleep in it in peace when they know that it derives its mediocre pleasures from the work of millions of
dead souls?

Albert Camus

#29. Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

Eartha Kitt

#30. We declare our right on this earth ... to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

#31. Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.

Nouman Ali Khan

#32. This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

Yoko Ono

#33. The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

Paul Weyrich

#34. If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#35. The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Herbert Marcuse

#36. If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

Malcolm X

#37. By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.

Warren Beatty

#38. I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.

Ted Haggard

#39. The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Terence McKenna

#40. And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

James Earl Jones

#41. If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Robert Sternberg

#42. Just as the waste of time nourishes the hell of leisure, so technological wastes nourish the hell of war. Wastes which incarnate the secret violence of this society, uncoerced and non-degradable defecation.

Jean Baudrillard

#43. I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Boyd Rice

#44. We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Miguel Ruiz

#45. This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

Ram Dass

#46. This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

David Ervine

#47. I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people's lives.

Ma Jian

#48. I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

Robert Stone

#49. We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

Malcolm X

#50. If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.

Catharine MacKinnon

#51. I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

Novala Takemoto

#52. It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Jonathan Swift

#53. This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#54. Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

Pat Robertson

#55. Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Yoko Ono

#56. It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#57. I honestly don't know how anyone functions in this society without a law degree.

Nelson DeMille

#58. I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

Tupac Shakur

#59. This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Herbert Marcuse

#60. And concerning anything in this society involved in helping Negroes, the federal government shows an inability to function. But it can function in South Vietnam, in the Congo, in Berlin, and in other places where it has no business. But it can't function in Mississippi.

Malcolm X

#61. One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

Michael Pare

#62. To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

Cecil Taylor

#63. If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Jerry Garcia

#64. Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

Jeff Vespa

#65. Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society.

Doug Stanhope

#66. Your love will never conquer what this society raised them to be.

Con Template

#67. Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Jim Rohn

#68. I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

William Julius Wilson

#69. You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Idries Shah

#70. I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

Lenny Abrahamson

#71. I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

Damien Rice

#72. But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

Dennis Lehane

#73. This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Ray Comfort

#74. In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke ... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

Sam Kinison

#75. Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Alison Gopnik

#76. I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.

Kurt Cobain

#77. It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

Samuel P. Huntington

#78. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Tupac Shakur

#79. This society conditions the mind to a particular pattern of thought, the pattern of self-improvement, self-adjustment, self-sacrifice, and only those who are capable of breaking away from all conditioning can discover that which is not measurable by the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#80. But how could a mafioso be forced to commit suicide?" I continued.
It only goes to show," she said, " that there are forces in this society more terrifying than the mafia. Ding Caichen was no match for them."
As to what those " terrifying forces" might be, I couldn't begin to imagine.

Ge Fei

#81. May the fire in your soul, burn down all the fences and walls which this society is trying to build around you.

Akshay Vasu

#82. willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.

Banana Yoshimoto

#83. The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Michael Lee-Chin

#84. I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

Joanna Newsom

#85. There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Constance Baker Motley

#86. O Rosey,
why don't you stay just home
and eat chocolate bars
and read Boswell
all this society-izing will bring you nothing but lines of anxiety on your face
and a sociable smile ain't nothing but teeth

Jack Kerouac

#87. Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Jack Kevorkian

#88. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

Barack Obama

#89. If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you.

Kevin Hearne

#90. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

Marianne Williamson

#91. Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

Malcolm McLaren

#92. Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Michael Pare

#93. The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

Charles Babbage

#94. The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

Sargent Shriver

#95. When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

Pia Zadora

#96. The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's
with the fabric of this society itself.

Jodi Picoult

#97. I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

Charles Mingus

#98. There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

Maxim Gorky

#99. One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.

Tupac Shakur

#100. The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

Terence McKenna