Ms Society Quotes

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

I'm a menace to society, But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me. After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing... You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Music is always a commentary on society.