Famous Quotes
- The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- Bertrand Russell on Society
- The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
- Gaston Caperton on Society
- The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- Alice Walker on Society
- The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
- Pope John Paul II on Society
- The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
- Fareed Zakaria on Society
- The great hope of society is in individual character.
- William Ellery Channing on Society
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- John Adams on Society
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Society
- The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
- Leon Trotsky on Society
- The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
- Tim Holden on Society
- 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 on Society
- The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
- Thom Mayne on Society
- 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.
- 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.
- Evelyn Glennie on Society
- The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
- Edward Bond on Society
- The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on Society
- The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
- Peter Guber on Society
- The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
- 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.
- The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
- Charles Horton Cooley on Society
- The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
- Howard Cosell on Society
- The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
- John Stuart Mill on Society
- The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine on Society
- 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.
- Jean Cocteau on Society
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- Noam Chomsky on Society
- The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- Dave Barry on Society
- The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
- Abbie Hoffman on Society
- 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 on Society
- 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 on Society
- The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
- Morrie Schwartz on Society
- The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
- Madeleine Albright on Society
- The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
- Dorothy Fields on Society
- The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Society
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- James A. Baldwin on Society
- The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
- The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
- Emma Goldman on Society
- The most violent element in society is ignorance.
- Emma Goldman on Society
- The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
- Jose Mourinho on Society
- The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.
- Tom Shadyac on Society
- 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.
- Simone Weil on Society
- 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.
- John Stuart Mill on Society
- The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
- Robert W. Service on Society
- The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
- Kevin Smith on Society
- The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
- Salman Rushdie on Society
- The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
- John Madden on Society
- The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- James A. Baldwin on Society
- The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- James Baldwin on Society
- The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
- Vladimir Putin on Society
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