I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Reuben Blades

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Society is composed of two great classes – those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
Malcolm Potts, MD

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
Author Unknown

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughn

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan, “Distress”

People have become as processed as food.
Astrid Alauda

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
Ellen Frankfort

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

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, “You can’t keep a good man down.” Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
John W. Gardner

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

What’s wrong with this world is, it’s not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, “It is finished. We made it and it works.”
William Faulkner, address, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 8 June 1952

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he’s happy, the other half he’s right.
Robert Brault

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
Robert Frost

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
G. B. Stern