- 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.
- Jerry Garcia on Society
- If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
- 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.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Society
- If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
- Serj Tankian on Society
- 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.
- Larry Page on Society
- If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
- Jonathan Kozol on Society
- If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
- Guy Kawasaki on Society
- If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
- Hugh Hefner on Society
- 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.
- Christopher Hitchens on Society
- If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
- Iain Duncan Smith on Society
- 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.
- Gloria Steinem on Society
- If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
- Lewis Thomas on Society
- If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater on Society
- If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
- Robert Sternberg on Society
- In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
- Carroll O'Connor on Society
- In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
- Geoffrey Fisher on Society
- In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Society
- In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
- Lee Iacocca on Society
- 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 on Society
- In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
- Walter Lippmann on Society
- 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 on Society
- 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.
- In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
- Kamisese Mara on Society
- In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
- Don DeLillo on Society
- In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
- In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Society
- In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
- Ethan Hawke on Society
- In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
- In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
- Barack Obama on Society
- In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
- Christiane Amanpour on Society
- In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
- Jessica Savitch on Society
- In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
- George J. Mitchell on Society
- In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Society
- In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
- Larry Niven on Society
- 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 on Society
- 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.
- Noam Chomsky on Society
- In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
- Desmond Tutu on Society
- In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
- James Buchan on Society
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
- Neil Armstrong on Society
- In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- Henry David Thoreau on Society
- In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
- 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.
- Salvador Dali on Society
- In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
- Tom Hiddleston on Society
- In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
- In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Society
- In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
- In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
- A. N. Wilson on Society
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