American society Quote by Margaret Sanger

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,

— Margaret Sanger

“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society…

— George Bernard Shaw

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who…

— David Brooks

“The docile doves have been mocked enough, by the darting drones that are built to snuff; and the olive branches have been dripping red,…

— Akash Mandal

Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and…

— Geraldine Brooks

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty,…

— Bertrand Russell

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

— Antonin Scalia

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

— Konrad Lorenz

“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when…

— Garret Keizer

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature…

— Thomas More

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

— Margaret Mead

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of…

— Henry Giroux