Society Quotes
-
We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
-
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.
-
For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
-
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
-
I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.
-
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.
-
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
-
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
-
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
-
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.
-
On my debut album, I wrote a lot about women and their roles in society.
-
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
-
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
-
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
-
I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.
-
Society is unity in diversity.
-
Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.
-
I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.
-
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
-
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
-
Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
-
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
-
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.
-
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.
