“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Related Quotes “Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”– Robert Orben “That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.”– Kenneth L. Pike “American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”– Henry Adams