This Society Quotes

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.