Society Quotes
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As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
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As laws and the principles of religion and morality are influencing causes, I have then not only the hope, but, what you have not, the positive conviction, that society may be ameliorated and reformed.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.
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I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.
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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
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The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.
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I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
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I'm not an American as you know, and to deliver "Jackie" today in the United States and understanding the role of women in society is changing and I hope it just gets better and better - and also in cinema. There's very few interesting roles today for women in cinema. It's getting better and stronger and, and I'm proud to be part of that.
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When we study history we obtain a more profound insight into human nature by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society.
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A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
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We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.
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The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the “cause” of this war with nothing to evaluate “objectively” and argue about.
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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
