This Society Quotes
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.
In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.
I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.
As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.