Georgette Heyer Quotes

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

Georgette Heyer

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Live
  • High
  • Society

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Work
  • Society
  • Cats

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Society

• I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Society
  • Lies

• Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Stand
  • Within

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Together
  • Society

• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Sex

• Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Society
  • Community
  • Proud

• What I find kind of annoying as a woman, especially in this society, is how people like to support people who seem like they're struggling when it comes to artists.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • People
  • Society
  • Support

• Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Society
  • Judge

• And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Important
  • Society
  • Environment

• Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

  

  Brother Lawrence
  • Work
  • God
  • Done

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

  

  Georgette Heyer
  • Society
  • Relatives
  • Intervals