The Society Quotes

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.