Social-commentary Quotes

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, d...

Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced t...

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - fla...

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; a...

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasional...

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress i...

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth ...

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he...

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid th...

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corr...

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. ...

So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Poli...

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, ...

One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connec...

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial...

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often pr...

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by ...

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, l...

I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer,” Vetinari went on, looking at a ...

Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was incli...

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for no...

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, an...

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorist...

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative...

If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, a...

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou...

Jazz is democracy in music.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from ...

..the happy hum of humanity.