Society Quotes
Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.
The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.
It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.
nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds
War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.
A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages
To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost
Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own.
Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!
The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.
In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.
I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.
There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.
He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.
Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!
Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it — than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse
Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.
Let’s return to the main argument. People are hurting as hell. It matters. We should do something to make them happier, if we can.
It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.
Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.
Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.
Only those who live for others become immortal, and the rest simply perish within a few weeks, or alas days, after their mortal demise.
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.
There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.
A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.
Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou
I'm not made to fit into the society's definition of me. I've got freedom to define myself. You too, if you know!
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
I am not the number or beautiful face on your black board as you want to give identity to me ! I am me . I am my identity .
Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It’s wrong.