Society Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

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A cityscape written with the autographs of men and epochs.

Icy cold as a banker's heart.

The city streets stretched out before her like a cobweb.

Below, the city hummed and glittered like a computer chip buried in an enigma machine.

The family returned for the funeral like individual drops of condensing water pooling in the hollow of a cold spoon.

Global warming is a fever the earth is running in an attempt to ward off a deadly infection known as homo sapiens.

Men live like fish: the great ones devouring the small.

Monarchy is the gold filling in the mouth of decay.

Whenever we leave a group, we leave behind a person-shaped hole that nobody can fill.

The Norman ancestors at the root of your boastful family tree were once illegal immigrants.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

A couple so unsocial that you need to sink a mine shaft to reach them.

The lottery is a pleasant name for organized racketeering.

Prisons are to crime as greenhouses are to plants.

People simply copy the realities of their hearts when they build prisons.

On that estate they breed like rats in a grain ship.

A society where consumption has to be artificially stimulated to keep production going, is a society built on trash and waste. It is a house built on sand.

Access to the bar was blocked by rough slabs of men, with women like mortar amongst them.

Laws are like spiders' webs: if some light or powerless thing falls into them, it is caught, but a bigger one can break through and get away.

Solon

Bad luck is being a father 18 years before a war.

A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end.