Ms Society Quotes

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.