The Society Quotes
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.
It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.
This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.