Ms Society Quotes
For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.
The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
For me, my dream came true. But for society it showed me that people want to move on, to look to the future. We said something, we made a statement.
moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.
This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.