The Society Quotes

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.