This Society Quotes

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

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.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

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.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

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.

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.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

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.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

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.

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

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.

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.

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.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

I'm a menace to society, But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me. After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing... You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.