Society Quotes
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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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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In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.
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A child smacking an adult across the face is not funny. It is, in fact, one of the last things society should tolerate.
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Youth holds no society with grief.
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I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
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All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.
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A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. And quality of life includes a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.
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We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.
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The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of world economic systems, our amazing success in harnessing the powers of nature to the betterment of the human condition in health, subsistence, longevity. These are the hallmarks of our society - its most successful elements.
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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
