Ms Society Quotes

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

Time, the greatest thief of all.

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police to them. It's about changing society entirely.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Learning should never stop for all age groups. We can empower millions to realize the opportunity to help shape a new society of creative 'mentorologists' in all areas of life.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Society is our extended mind and body.

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.