This Society Quotes

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.

Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

I think we live in a world where "the normal," is just a cut that each society creates for itself, but leaves out a number of situations, thoughts, and events as part of what we catalog as normal.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.

We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

The package destroys not just the peace process but all the peace dynamics in society. This is a bid to crush opposition.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.