This Society Quotes
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.
History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.
I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism.
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.
I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.
And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.
Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.