Ms Society Quotes

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.