The Society Quotes
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
There's no right or wrong, exercise is exercise and it's incredibly healthy for you and, you know, society. And it's a positive thing, so however you want to do it, each individual to themselves.
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.
I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society
What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?
Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.
I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving.
I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.
One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant of state capitalism.
The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.
There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.
In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.
In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.
You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development.
America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.
Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.
We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.
The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.
I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.