Famous Quotes
- Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
- Henry Van Dyke on Society
- Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
- Dennis Prager on Society
- Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
- Jacob Bronowski on Society
- Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
- Nat Turner on Society
- He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
- Shel Silverstein on Society
- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
- Johann Most on Society
- He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
- Theodor Adorno on Society
- Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
- Busta Rhymes on Society
- Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
- Marshall McLuhan on Society
- History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- Naguib Mahfouz on Society
- How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
- Dennis Prager on Society
- How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney on Society
- How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
- John Gilmore on Society
- Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
- Stephen Harper on Society
- Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
- Mason Cooley on Society
- Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
- John Ralston Saul on Society
- Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
- Marlon Wayans on Society
- I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
- I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
- Brigitte Bardot on Society
- I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
- A. Whitney Brown on Society
- I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
- Terry Pratchett on Society
- I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Society
- I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
- Tony Campolo on Society
- I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
- Emily Bronte on Society
- I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
- Marco Rubio on Society
- I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
- Mary Douglas on Society
- I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
- J. C. Watts on Society
- I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
- Allyson Schwartz on Society
- I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
- Andrew Cuomo on Society
- I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.
- Jermaine Jackson on Society
- I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
- Naguib Mahfouz on Society
- I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante on Society
- I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
- Billy Graham on Society
- I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Society
- I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
- I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
- Lech Walesa on Society
- I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
- Herbert Read on Society
- I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
- Madeleine Albright on Society
- I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
- Charles Kuralt on Society
- I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
- George Soros on Society
- I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Society
- I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
- Bear Grylls on Society
- I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
- Ednita Nazario on Society
- I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
- Marat Safin on Society
- I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
- Naguib Mahfouz on Society
- I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
- Ray Charles on Society
- I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
- Nick Clegg on Society
- I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Society
- I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
- Ian MacKaye on Society
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