Society Quotes
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Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules or laws.
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Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life.
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I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
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A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
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We live in a kissy society.
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We live in a very gynophobic society.
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I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.
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Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
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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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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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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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All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
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Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.
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I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.
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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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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
