Ms Society Quotes

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.