Society Quotes

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground" "I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade" "Sometimes what is right seems wrong, and what is wrong seems right" "Independence is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent " "The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are." "We are captured by a machine that treats you as less than human." "[...] We have made the world a lie." "The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim" "The arts are not just the icing on the cake. They are an integral part of the cake itself." "The more humanity advances the more it is degraded." "A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment." "The spirit of the times shows all our faults and mistakes in a glaring light." "The individual becomes impaired, and the sum of individual potentials freeze to make a general force." "What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend." "The world is full of cruel men, but many of them are on our side."