The Society Quotes
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.
For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.
The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.
In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society.
It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.
I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.
If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.
If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.
People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.
Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society.
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.
I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.