Society Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Society Quotes from famous persons: Simone Weil, Igor Luksic, John Lydon, Lester B. Pearson, Mother Angelica. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Society Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have al

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilitiestoward full European integration.
Igor Luksic
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
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Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
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The very word ‘secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to know every vibration. But once you attain this status, more than you, people become self-conscious by your presence.
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Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Pervez Musharraf
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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In the 1990s, it’s OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It’s acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke… about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough.
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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one’s thoughts but also to be talented in one’s feelings as well.
Lev Vygotsky
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
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Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
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What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that’s going to bring you happiness. That’s what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That’s a fallacy.
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The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
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I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.
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Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
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I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
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If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
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We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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I feel that it is a social responsibility for us who are better educated to give back some to the society in whatever service we can help.
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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
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We in the West think of peace as society’s default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
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A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That’s not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.
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I did it to myself. It wasn’t society… it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
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I couldn’t really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys’ school.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
G. Gordon Liddy
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar
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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
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Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate – it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
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A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
Jimmy Reid
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If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.
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Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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What is missing from today’s dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
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In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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I don’t think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
Jerome Flynn
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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
Adam Ostrow
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Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes
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Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too.
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Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society.
Robert Blair
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
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Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society – the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
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Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
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No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.
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When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you’ll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.
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In my view – which could be wrong, but it is my field – there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin
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Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
Richard J. Daley
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American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.
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I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody‘s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
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A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
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Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.
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There will always be haters. Small heroes can change society every day. It just takes time.
Michael Sam
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
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It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.
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When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
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In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.
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Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
Prince Philip
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
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Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
Ludwig von Mises
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My role in society, or any artist‘s or poet‘s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
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Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists’ movements assumed that there’d be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
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The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
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A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.
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If we don’t figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we’re not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat
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There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
128
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest – seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
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The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
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I think it’s important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they’re Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
139
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they’d like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
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Black Lives Matter is not just concerned with what happens in policing. The disregard, the disrespect, and the lack of dignity for black life transcends through the fabric of our society.
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We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney
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Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
144
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
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We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.
146
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
147
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
148
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
149
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
150
I’ve met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it’s just not real. We’ve set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that’s supposed to be a community, like a real community. It’s supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.
151
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
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Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you’re supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
154
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
157
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon
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It’s one of these things that I’ve been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that’s not at all class specific. It’s not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It’s always been something that I’ve noticed.
159
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
161
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
162
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
163
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.
164
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
165
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
166
I define ‘social thriller‘ as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.
167
In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
168
The law is the foundation of our society.
169
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
170
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
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Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
172
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
173
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
174
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
Matthew Shultz
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
176
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
177
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
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Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.
179
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
180
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Horace Walpole
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Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer‘s Society.
182
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
183
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
184
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
185
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
186
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
187
A job is a person’s identity in a society, his way of living, and his relevance in society.
Prakash Raj
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
189
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
190
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
191
If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
192
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
193
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
194
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
195
Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
196
Civility, politeness, it’s like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
197
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
198
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
199
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
Anna Maria Chavez
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Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
201
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
202
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
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It is pretty ironic that the so-calledleast advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
206
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
207
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
208
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man – that is to say, the strongest and cleverest – is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
209
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.
210
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
211
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
212
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
213
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
214
Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
215
Women are the real architects of society.
216
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.
217
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
218
Dear Society’ really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I’ve been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.
219
You don’t realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It’s a card you get so you can navigate society.
220
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
221
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
Cecil Rhodes
222
I just want to build the best buildings. It’s not about me, it’s about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.
223
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
Hugh Kingsmill
224
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
225
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
226
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
Nancy Friday
227
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
228
Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others’ opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
Brendan Dooling
229
We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.
230
Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.
231
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
232
Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.
233
The Supreme Court‘s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman
234
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
235
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
236
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
237
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
238
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
239
I’ve only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it’s important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.
240
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don’t need a national ID card.
241
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery – much of it violent – that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
242
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
243
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
244
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.
245
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
246
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it’s really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
247
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
248
The New Order wants to implement democracy in economy. It is an order to achieve a social, political, economic, and cultural society with Pancasila and Belief in God Almighty as our moral values.
249
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
250
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
251
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin
252
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
253
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.
254
FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.
Sepp Blatter
255
I mean, I’m married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going.
256
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
257
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
258
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
259
The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
260
I think right now the way society’s going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn’t have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I’ve been lost many times in my life, and I’ve had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
261
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore
262
It’s long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
263
Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It’s crazy.
264
People don’t want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
265
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
266
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
267
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
268
You’re scrutinized all through your life – you’re scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
269
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
270
Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.
271
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
T. E. Hulme
272
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
273
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
274
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles
275
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
Gideon Welles
276
A studio gangster dupes people into believing he’s a tough guy, but in reality he’s the former student body president and member of the National Honor Society. Once Vanilla Ice was fingered as a studio gangster, his career was over. Thank God.
277
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
278
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
279
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
280
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
281
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
282
I was taught to confront things you can’t avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you’re trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don’t last for ever makes them beautiful.
283
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold
284
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
285
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
286
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage‘s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
287
Voting is how we participate in a civic society – be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It’s the way we teach our children – in school elections – how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.
288
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
289
I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.
Guy Spier
290
Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.
291
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
292
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
293
The word ‘midget’ is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum’s era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.
294
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look – or at least reproduces our reality.
295
Communication is at the very core of our society. That’s what makes us human.
296
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
297
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
Prince Andrew
298
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
299
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
300
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
301
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
302
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien Robespierre
303
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
304
The women’s movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we’d break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we’d walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.
Ellen Goodman
305
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
Bob Kahn
306
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Harriet Martineau
307
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
308
Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
309
I’m an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.
310
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
311
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
312
Along the way, let’s never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We’ve forgotten what that childlike experience was like.
313
I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people – in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is – the sooner it will stop.
314
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
315
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
316
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
317
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
Roy Jenkins
318
If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
319
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
320
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
321
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt
322
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness – of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
323
The PML-N is working on the lines of ‘humanity first,’ and the government, as such, has taken every possible step to improve the living standard of less privileged associates of our society.
324
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
325
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.
326
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
327
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
328
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don’t succeed, you won’t be in your profession for long. In our society, it’s not about good or bad. It’s about who’s on top.
Chili Davis
329
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?
330
I think there’s been this whole image of masculinity that’s been out in society – of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men – like, this patriarchy.
331
Society is unity in diversity.
George Herbert Mead
332
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
333
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills
334
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
335
Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
336
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
337
Sports are a microcosm of society.
338
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
339
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
340
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
341
There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.
342
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.
343
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel
344
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
345
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: ‘This is me, it has to be me.’ And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
346
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
347
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
348
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
349
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.
350
The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
351
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
352
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
353
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
354
Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace.
355
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
356
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering
357
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
358
If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society.
359
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
360
We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We’re connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey
361
It’s going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
362
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
363
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
364
It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear – return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first.
Guion Bluford
365
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
366
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a society where you can say whatever you want, and there will be no repercussions. Pick and choose your battles. I think that’s the key.
367
In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics.
368
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
369
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
370
If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today – mostly by fossil fuels – you’d have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
371
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden
372
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
Paulo Freire
373
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
374
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that’s not equity, it’s just creating a society where you can’t ask anything of people.
375
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
376
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
377
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Jacques Ellul
378
My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
379
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
380
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
381
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
382
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
383
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
384
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach
385
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
386
I use the term ‘disabled people’ quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what’s called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
387
Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift of the goddess but a crime against God himself, women were believed to be the vessels of love’s malign power.
388
Half of my life, I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises. It’s more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
389
Our nation’s founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights – an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free society. When any of those freedoms are threatened anywhere, they must be defended and protected everywhere.
390
I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
391
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge
392
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
393
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
Dorothy Fields
394
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
395
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
396
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
Miriam Makeba
397
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation – the result of which is impossible to predict.
398
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn
399
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That’s what an editor does – looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.
400
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
Frei Otto
401
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
402
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape.
403
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
404
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
405
If we don’t change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we’ll be extinct by mid-century. I don’t say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
406
I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we’ve said it exists does not really exist in nature.
407
Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.
408
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
409
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
410
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
Muhtar Kent
411
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
412
If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
413
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.
414
More Than’ means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.
415
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
416
You can never squash something and assume it’s not going to come back in some fashion. It’s going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.
417
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
418
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
419
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson II
420
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
421
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
422
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner
423
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
424
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
425
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society – a future world that could plausibly happen.
Lauren DeStefano
426
Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a ‘man’ is based in their ability to be tough, dominant – and even violent when required.
427
In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.
428
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
429
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
430
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
431
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
432
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
433
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.
434
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
435
The ‘Bohemian Manifestorepresents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.
436
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
437
I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won’t have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.
438
I would suggest that faith is everyone’s business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
William Wilberforce
439
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole – women and men alike – than the one which involves women as central players.
440
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
441
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants’ civilization, you are part of the group; you don’t live for yourself alone.
Bernard Werber
442
Today’s investors want to see a positive impact on society and the environment as well as solid financial returns.
443
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
444
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
445
I’m a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
446
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
Arthur Compton
447
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
448
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
449
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’
450
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
451
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.
452
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
453
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
454
We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
455
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Paulo Freire
456
In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
457
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
458
I told our employees several times, ‘Let’s focus on the end user, let’s focus on committing to society, and focus on the crisis and doing the right thing, show our corporate social responsibility.’ Don’t focus on marketing and sales. That’s horrible culture.
459
‘Selma’ is a story about voice – the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.
460
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
461
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
462
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
Steve Chabot
463
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
464
One of the main inspirations behind The Power of Makeup was bullies and the one thing I believe in is that makeup is not just society, it’s for you.
NikkieTutorials
465
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
466
Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.
Isabella Lovin
467
If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
468
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
469
The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can’t succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that’s a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.
470
Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it’s great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
471
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
472
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
Sam Keen
473
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it’s good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
474
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
475
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it.
476
It is good for society to have this introspection.
Jacques Verges
477
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
478
Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
Frei Otto
479
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
480
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
481
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover
482
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
John Naisbitt
483
One of the most destructive things that’s happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
484
Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
485
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
486
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
487
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
488
Mental health is an issue ailing everyone – it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.
489
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Judith Light
490
We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.
491
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
Vissarion Belinsky
492
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
493
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
494
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
495
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
David Smith
496
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it’s people’s consumption of other people’s problems.
497
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
498
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
499
I think if I hadn’t been born in a pit village I’d have been part of a dramatic society.
500
New technologies always reshape society, and it’s always tempting to worry about them solely for this reason.
501
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
502
If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.
503
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
504
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng
505
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society – like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
506
The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
507
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
508
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
509
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
510
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
511
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
512
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
513
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen
514
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
515
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
516
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It’s a product of stress and in my case over-work.
517
We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that’s because we don’t talk about them enough.
518
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
519
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter
520
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
521
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen
522
It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.
523
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it’s worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
524
We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.
525
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos
526
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
527
Black men constantly receive the message that they can’t make it in life through using legitimate means, and the only way they gain society’s respect is through the street game.
528
The great hope of society is in individual character.
529
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
Irrfan Khan
530
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
531
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
532
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
533
Society is fast – fast food, fast cars, fast everything.
534
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
535
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
536
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
537
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
538
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
539
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‘what can I give’ spirit.
540
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
541
One of the reasons that Thatcher promoted home ownership is that it promoted responsible citizens with a stake in society. But another reason was that those people would tend to be Conservative.
542
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
Ronnie Chan
543
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
544
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
545
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
546
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
547
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
548
It is not a fragrant world.
549
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
550
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things – genre paintings, historical paintings – the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
551
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
552
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
553
I’m a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don’t do because I feel that it’s going to create a bad vibe. I don’t do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
554
Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.
555
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
556
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
557
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
558
Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.
559
Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
560
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
561
Films can’t change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
562
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
563
We live in a disposable, ‘cast-off and throw-away’ society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
564
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
565
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe – even for its inhabitants of that society – which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.
566
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
567
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
568
Biblical justice is the equitable application of God’s moral law in society.
569
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for ‘better’ jobs in the city. We emptied America’s rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
570
There’s something about compassion that causes society to say, ‘We’re going to take this person seriously.’ Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn’t rejected by society.
571
Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.
572
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories – much of the debugging has to be done by others.
573
We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
574
Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English political virtues – rule of law, free speech, the franchise.
575
There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free – the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
576
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
577
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Kenzo Tange
578
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
579
I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don’t think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.
580
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that’s only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There’s an enormous amount of cooperation.
581
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
582
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
583
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.
584
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
585
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
586
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
587
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
588
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
589
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
590
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
591
Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
592
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
593
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Henry St. John
594
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
595
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
596
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
597
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
598
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
599
It’s a free society. But don’t tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That’s when this misinformation becomes destructive.
600
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
601
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
602
I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people’s heads. There are more and more people. Human society’s going to have real problems.
603
For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
604
Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
605
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan
606
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
607
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
608
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
609
Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
610
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care.
611
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
612
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
Joseph P. Bradley
613
Everybody, not just stars, should take up the responsibility of giving back to society. It doesn’t matter how much you give, but what really matters is if you are willing to give something.
Ali
614
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society – and well worth fighting for.
Helen Suzman
615
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne
616
We live in a very unequal society.
617
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
618
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
619
I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.
620
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society.
621
Erdogan’s persecution of his people is not simply a domestic matter. The ongoing pursuit of civil society, journalists, academics and Kurds in Turkey is threatening the long-term stability of the country.
622
Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.
623
Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.
624
Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It’s a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.
Jeff Bingaman
625
Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
626
Popular Monster‘ is the voice inside my head, hoping you will listen. It’s the story of a hero that’s been falsely accused and torn down by society. It shows what happens when you get pushed too far.
627
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Hernan Cortes
628
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
629
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
630
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
631
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they’re all very different.
Frans Lanting
632
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
633
I feel like it’s actually everybody’s responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you’re an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it’s everybody’s responsibility.
634
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
635
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
636
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
637
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.
638
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
639
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.
640
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
641
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan
642
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Robert Bork
643
Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what’s going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
644
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
645
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
646
Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
647
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it’s to suggest all the possible futures – so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
648
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
649
To be sure Plato did not favoraffirmative action‘ to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he enroll women in his school.
650
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
651
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
652
I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
653
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
654
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
655
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
656
Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship… When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
657
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
658
For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society?
659
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
660
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon
661
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
662
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
663
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
664
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
665
Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.
666
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
667
If we’re not protecting our women and we’re not protecting our girls and we’re not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?
668
I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for ‘Siren‘ to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.
Eline Powell
669
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
670
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
671
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
672
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Wilma Mankiller
673
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
Earl Browder
674
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
675
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
676
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
677
I think the first duty of society is justice.
678
We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society – the system for what we own (assets), who we are (identity), how we make decisions (governance), and more in an increasingly digital world. It’s going to be a wild ride.
679
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
680
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
681
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
682
Blockchain’s a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.
683
A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
684
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
685
It’s a repressive society where you can’t be horrible, I’m not horrible, they made me horrible, I’m just honest.
686
I think the most important thing… is leadership. It’s something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don’t want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.
687
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
688
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
689
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
690
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
691
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
692
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
693
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
694
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
695
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.
696
History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.
697
Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.
698
There’s a popular concept of ‘intelligence’ as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that ‘it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.’ But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.
699
Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don’t have the opportunities to advance themselves.
700
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
701
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
702
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
703
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
Robert Trout
704
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
705
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.
706
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It’s because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
707
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, ‘How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?’ The answer is, ‘I was young once.’ End of answer.
708
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
Preston Manning
709
Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I’m doing. You scream.
710
The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
711
I’m always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.
712
Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge, one needs to solve open-ended problems, which basically make one think on one’s own.
713
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
714
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
715
It’s really hard coming of age in today’s society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you’re 16 years old. Most kids don’t know what they want to do. How could they? They haven‘t lived in the real world yet.
716
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin
717
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice Druon
718
We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.
719
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
720
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
721
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
Gustav Heinemann
722
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
723
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Philip Guston
724
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
725
The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.