Famous Quotes
- In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
- Jessica Savitch on Society
- In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
- George J. Mitchell on Society
- In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Society
- In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
- Larry Niven on Society
- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller on Society
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
- Noam Chomsky on Society
- In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
- Desmond Tutu on Society
- In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
- James Buchan on Society
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
- Neil Armstrong on Society
- In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- Henry David Thoreau on Society
- In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
- In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
- Salvador Dali on Society
- In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
- Tom Hiddleston on Society
- In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
- In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Society
- In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
- In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
- A. N. Wilson on Society
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
- Noam Chomsky on Society
- In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Society
- In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
- Friedrich Schiller on Society
- In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
- Carl Sandburg on Society
- In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
- Curt Schilling on Society
- In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
- Irving Babbitt on Society
- Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi on Society
- Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
- Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
- E. O. Wilson on Society
- Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
- Tim Berners-Lee on Society
- Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
- John Naisbitt on Society
- Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Society
- It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
- Roy H. Williams on Society
- It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
- Herbert Read on Society
- It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
- James Earl Jones on Society
- It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Thomas Mann on Society
- It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
- Herbert Read on Society
- It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Thor Heyerdahl on Society
- It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
- Isaac Asimov on Society
- It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Society
- It is good for society to have this introspection.
- Jacques Verges on Society
- It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
- William Makepeace Thackeray on Society
- It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
- Barbara Boxer on Society
- It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
- Murray Rothbard on Society
- It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Society
- It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society
- It is not a fragrant world.
- Raymond Chandler on Society
- It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Society
- It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
- William Hague on Society
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