This Society Quotes

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

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.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.

It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

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

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

A secret society within a secret society.

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

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

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.