Famous Quotes
- It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
- Simon Mainwaring on Society
- It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
- Baldwin Spencer on Society
- It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Society
- It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
- Jacques Barzun on Society
- It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
- Alexander McCall Smith on Society
- It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
- Johnny Rotten on Society
- It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
- 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.
- Martha Plimpton on Society
- It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society
- It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
- Jessica Simpson on Society
- It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
- Julia Roberts on Society
- It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
- David Mamet on Society
- It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
- Julie Burchill on Society
- Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
- Tom Hiddleston on Society
- Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
- Barbra Streisand on Society
- 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.
- Edmund Burke on Society
- Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
- Michel Foucault on Society
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- Kofi Annan on Society
- 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.
- Ambrose Bierce on Society
- Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Society
- Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
- Thomas Fuller on Society
- Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
- Dennis Prager on Society
- 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 on Society
- Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
- Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- Samuel Johnson on Society
- Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben on Society
- Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
- E. L. Doctorow on Society
- 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 on Society
- Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
- Michael Haneke on Society
- Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan on Society
- Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
- Alexander McCall Smith on Society
- Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
- Jack Kingston on Society
- Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Society
- Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Society
- Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
- Dorothy Day on Society
- Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S. Truman on Society
- Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
- Delphine De Girardin on Society
- Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Society
- Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
- William Blackstone on Society
- Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
- Dirk Kempthorne on Society
- Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
- Rush Limbaugh on Society
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- Ludwig Von Mises on Society
- Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
- Robert Bork on Society
- Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
- Thomas Frank on Society
- Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost on Society
- Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
- Lester Bangs on Society
- Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
- Susan Sontag on Society
- 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.
- W. H. Auden on Society
- Music is always a commentary on society.
- Frank Zappa on Society
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