Society Quotes
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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
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Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
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Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
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America at the turn of this century is a far freer, more egalitarian society than in 1900.
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I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.
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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
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I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.
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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
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We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.
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The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
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And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
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We are slaves to this consumer society, ... When this civilization ends, what are they going to see when the archaeologists dig us up? I think they're going to say we worshipped technology.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.
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To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.
