Ms Society Quotes

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.