Ms Society Quotes

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

Women are the architects of society

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.