Social Commentary Quotes

"There is a cultural movement willing to blame everyone except the people who actually live in these communities." "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway" "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty" "The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people." "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." "This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." "Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion." "People with opinions just go around bothering each other." "The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "