10 James Thurber Quotes on Society

James Thurber quotes on society

16. Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

29. Discussion in America means dissent.

30. Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

56. I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

59. The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

68. I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

74. Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them.

76. Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

80. Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

93. Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?