Society(35)

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
Peter Medawar

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
George Orwell

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
Carl Sandburg

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
George Bernard Shaw

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
Paul Sweeney

"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
Thomas Szasz

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Thomas Szasz

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
Alvin Toffler