The Society Quotes
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.
One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.
Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.