Famous Quotes
- The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
- E. M. Forster on Society
- The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
- Henrik Ibsen on Society
- The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
- Herbert Read on Society
- The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
- J. Michael Straczynski on Society
- The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
- Bell Hooks on Society
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- David Cameron on Society
- The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
- John Paul Stevens on Society
- 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 on Society
- The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
- Jonathan Kozol on Society
- 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.
- Jacques Delors on Society
- The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
- David Mamet on Society
- The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
- Rutherford B. Hayes on Society
- The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
- Clara Zetkin on Society
- The public school has become the established church of secular society.
- Ivan Illich on Society
- The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
- Abbe Pierre on Society
- 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.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick on Society
- The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
- John Locke on Society
- The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Society
- The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
- Adrienne Rich on Society
- The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
- Salman Rushdie on Society
- The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
- Benjamin Netanyahu on Society
- The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
- Olof Palme on Society
- The role of art in society differs for every artist.
- The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
- Tyra Banks on Society
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov on Society
- 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.
- Warren Buffett on Society
- The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
- Albert Camus on Society
- The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Society
- 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.
- John W. Gardner on Society
- The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
- Henrik Ibsen on Society
- 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.
- Lester B. Pearson on Society
- The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
- Gary Bauer on Society
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Society
- The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
- Edwin Louis Cole on Society
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
- Alfred Adler on Society
- The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Society
- The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
- Emma Thompson on Society
- The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin on Society
- The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
- Pamela Anderson on Society
- The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
- Phil McGraw on Society
- The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
- Theresa May on Society
- The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Society
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
- Garrett Hardin on Society
- The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Society
- 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.
- John F. Kennedy on Society
- The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
- C. J. Cherryh on Society
- The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
- Barry Commoner on Society
- The whole system of society tells you what to do.
- Barry White on Society
- The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
- Barbara Bush on Society
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