Ms Society Quotes

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

Work is a four-letter word.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.