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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses bo...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
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Timothy Leary
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with th...
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George Bernard Shaw
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic...
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Thomas Szasz
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cak...
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Paul Sweeney
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you a...
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Carl Sandburg
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick so...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is not a fragrant world.
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Raymond Chandler
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspond...
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Jacques Barzun
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetar...
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Bill Vaughan
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in a...
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Robert Frost
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unre...
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Alvin Toffler
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the soc...
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Charles Horton Cooley
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as includin...
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctio...
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Thomas Szasz
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings th...
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George Orwell
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Mignon McLaughlin
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue...
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Randolph Bourne
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names th...
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Bill Vaughn
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the f...
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Erich Fromm
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when w...
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Arnold J. Toynbee
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity a...
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John W. Gardner
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a ...
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Lily Tomlin
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without consci...
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Omar N. Bradley
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is ...
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Daniel Webster
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had ...
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Barbara Jordan
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided ...
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Matthew Arnold
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave no...
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Peter Medawar
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress r...
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Russell Baker
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Milton Friedman
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to pu...
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Henry David Thoreau
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way ...
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Charles Kuralt
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All ...
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Art Buchwald