This Society Quotes

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society.

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.