This Society Quotes

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.