Famous Quotes

"In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act."

Don DeLillo on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Don DeLillo

• "Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

• "I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."

• "I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."

• "There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

• "There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."