Unstable Society Quotes

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

We live in a... chaotic world.

America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy - a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.