The Society Quotes
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development
Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin
(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness
All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.
The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.
The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.
Sickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.
Are you disappointed with society? If you are, I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.
It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.
...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps
Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
