Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
Every age is blind to its own worst madness.
Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years.
There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
The world is an inherently unfair place.
I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is wrong.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.
All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.
Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.
