Famous Quotes
- Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
- Louis Althusser on Society
- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy on Society
- If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Society
- If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau on Society
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
- Jon Meacham on Society
- If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
- Corey Feldman on Society
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy on Society
- If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
- Simon Mainwaring on Society
- If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
- Sargent Shriver on Society
- If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
- Zig Ziglar on Society
- If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
- Strom Thurmond on Society
- If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
- If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
- Oscar Wilde on Society
- If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
- Luc De Clapiers on Society
- If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
- Robert Frost on Society
- If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
- Samuel Richardson on Society
- If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Howard Zinn on Society
- If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
- If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
- Jerry Garcia on Society
- If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
- If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Society
- If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
- Serj Tankian on Society
- If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
- Larry Page on Society
- If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
- Jonathan Kozol on Society
- If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
- Guy Kawasaki on Society
- If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
- Hugh Hefner on Society
- If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
- Christopher Hitchens on Society
- If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
- Iain Duncan Smith on Society
- If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
- Gloria Steinem on Society
- If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
- Lewis Thomas on Society
- If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater on Society
- If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
- Robert Sternberg on Society
- In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
- Carroll O'Connor on Society
- In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
- Geoffrey Fisher on Society
- In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Society
- In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
- Lee Iacocca on Society
- In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Ernst Fischer on Society
- In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
- Walter Lippmann on Society
- In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
- Cal Thomas on Society
- In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
- In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
- Kamisese Mara on Society
- In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
- Don DeLillo on Society
- In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
- In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Society
- In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
- Ethan Hawke on Society
- In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
- In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
- Barack Obama on Society
- In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
- Christiane Amanpour on Society
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