This Society Quotes

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Women find little pleasure in the society of women.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

The security of the woman is the security of society.

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.