This Society Quotes

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

The ability of the market to serve society gas been and is continually being undermined by the attacks levelled by its ideological opponents.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

Society should emphasize personality. Accomplishment. Interest. Intelligent things. I think everybody should look as good as possible too.

Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.