The Society Quotes

In my society we know how to say things, but we don't know how to realize them. In my society everyone has a perfect personality in public, and a dirty one behind the curtain.

We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frustration of this or that instinctual need per se

The correct action as we all know is to back off from EMF/RF exposures as a global society.

Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

What if you'd live every day as if you were our society's future and hope?

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!

If I have done good for someone I have done bad for the conservative society.

Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that.

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let's always lend a helping hand.

In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost.

Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?

The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths

Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful.

Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.

When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities.

They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin allowed them by this had fairly become one of their commonplaces.

Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for schools but not for Fajr.

Where there is society, there is no need for charity.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

Blessed is the society with elderly souls.

Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.