Society Quotes
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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
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Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.
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We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
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I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.
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This is a work that cannot be completed except by a society of men of letters and skilled workmen, each working separately on his own part, but all bound together solely by their zeal for the best interests of the human race and a feeling of mutual good will.
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I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
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When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!
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Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.
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Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
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Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
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You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
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There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.
