The Society Quotes
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.
It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world.
To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.
At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’
You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married.
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.
Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.
In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.
La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.
We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.