The Society Quotes

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.

We live in an anaesthetized society.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

There's a right-wing shift in Israeli society, very hard right shift.

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

I feel today's society is so judgmental.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].