This Society Quotes
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.
Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.
I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.
When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.