Famous Quotes
- A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
- Kevin Kelly on Society
- A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
- Robert Frost on Society
- A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
- Marshall McLuhan on Society
- A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Bill Gates on Society
- A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
- Lee R. Raymond on Society
- A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
- A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
- George Osborne on Society
- A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej on Society
- A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Society
- A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
- B. R. Ambedkar on Society
- A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Society
- A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
- Charles W. Pickering on Society
- A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
- Stella Adler on Society
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Society
- A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti on Society
- A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
- Harry Browne on Society
- A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
- Adam Carolla on Society
- A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William Ralph Inge on Society
- A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
- John Charles Polanyi on Society
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society
- A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik on Society
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- James Madison on Society
- A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
- Pauline Hanson on Society
- A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
- Robert Bork on Society
- A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
- H. L. Mencken on Society
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
- Ibrahim Babangida on Society
- A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Society
- A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
- Christopher Lasch on Society
- A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
- Ralph Nader on Society
- A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
- George Will on Society
- A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
- Iain Duncan Smith on Society
- A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Society
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
- John Adams on Society
- Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
- Kent Conrad on Society
- Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
- Robert Carlyle on Society
- Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
- Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
- Terri Apter on Society
- Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
- David Ogilvy on Society
- Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
- Friedrich Schiller on Society
- Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
- John Kasich on Society
- After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
- Eliot Spitzer on Society
- After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
- William S. Burroughs on Society
- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- Jack Kingston on Society
- AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
- Jerry Falwell on Society
- All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
- Joseph Lancaster on Society
- All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
- John Hodgman on Society
- All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
- John Cheever on Society
- All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
- Ingrid Newkirk on Society
- All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
- Alice Walker on Society
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