Society Quotes

"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." "If men were angels no government would be necessary" "The more powerful you are, the more your behavior changes the rules." "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos" "The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it" "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another." "Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival." "Innovation is what you get when you put human talent into a diverse society." "All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in" "America never was America to me." "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets" "Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function" "Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions" "There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion." "98% of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them " "What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?" "Sanity is not statistical."