Famous Quotes
- Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Society
- Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
- Valerie Solanas on Society
- 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.
- John Lennon on Society
- 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.
- Pearl S. Buck on Society
- Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
- Zachary Quinto on Society
- Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
- Billy Graham on Society
- Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
- Tipper Gore on Society
- Our whole society is instantaneous.
- Bryan Cranston on Society
- Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
- 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.
- Ani DiFranco on Society
- Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Denis Diderot on Society
- People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
- Max Cannon on Society
- 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.
- People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
- Henry Louis Gates on Society
- People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi on Society
- Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Society
- Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
- David Rockefeller on Society
- Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
- 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.
- B. R. Ambedkar on Society
- 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.
- Woodrow Wilson on Society
- Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.
- Margaret Atwood on Society
- Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
- Shirley Manson on Society
- 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.
- Michel Foucault on Society
- 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.
- Thomas Sowell on Society
- Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Society
- Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
- Michel Foucault on Society
- 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 on Society
- Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
- Herbert Read on Society
- Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
- Salvador Dali on Society
- 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.
- Herman Kahn on Society
- Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
- Lord Acton on Society
- Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.
- James Hillman on Society
- Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
- Thomas Szasz on Society
- Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
- Phyllis Schlafly on Society
- Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey on Society
- Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
- Alex Haley on Society
- Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II on Society
- Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
- Vidal Sassoon on Society
- Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.
- Keith O'Brien on Society
- Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
- Edward Bond on Society
- Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- 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.
- Marian Wright Edelman on Society
- 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.
- David Ogilvy on Society
- RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
- Frances O'Grady on Society
- Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
- Victoria Woodhull on Society
- 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.
- Garrett Hardin on Society
- Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
- Keith O'Brien on Society
- Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Society
- Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
- David Bohm on Society
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