Society Quotes
Society. We all live in it. We all have opinions about it. What did these people have to say?
"Childhood is a short season." -Helen Hayes
Quiz created by: Bill Graves
1. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
(#) Thomas Jefferson
(#) Dwight Eisenhower
(#) Benjamin Franklin
(#) Thomas Payne
2. Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
(#) Timothy Leary
(#) Lenny Bruce
(#) Andy Warhol
(#) Mark Twain
3. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
(#) Jack Kerouac
(#) Allen Ginsburg
(#) C.S. Lewis
(#) Robert Frost
4. Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
(#) Jack London
(#) Hermann Melville
(#) George Orwell
(#) Robert Conrad
5. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
(#) Robin Williams
(#) Will Rogers
(#) George Carlin
(#) Lily Tomlin
6. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
(#) Mohandas Gandhi
(#) Mark Twain
(#) Carl Sagan
(#) Abraham Lincoln
7. The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
(#) Daniel Webster
(#) John Kennedy
(#) Rene Descartes
(#) Richard Nixon
8. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
(#) David Blake
(#) Frank Lloyd Wright
(#) John Mellencamp
(#) Henry David Thoreau
9. You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
(#) Barbara Walters
(#) Charles Kuralt
(#) Dennis Leary
(#) Emeril Lagasse
10. You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
(#) Herb Caen
(#) Art Buchwald
(#) John Lennon
(#) Andy Warhol
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