This Society Quotes

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Theres always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.