Society Quotes
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Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
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It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
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The general fellowship of our human situation has been rendered even more dubious than before, inasmuch as, though the old ties of caste have been loosened, a new restriction of the individual to some prescribed status in society is manifest. Less than ever, perhaps, is it possible for a man to transcend the limitations imposed by his social origins.
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Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential.
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
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For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.
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Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.
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We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
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I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
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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'.
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
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The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.
