Society(35)

"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims."
Matthew Arnold

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
Russell Baker

"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."
Jacques Barzun

"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
Randolph Bourne

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
Omar N. Bradley

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
Art Buchwald

"It is not a fragrant world."
Raymond Chandler

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
Charles Horton Cooley

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
Milton Friedman