This Society Quotes
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.
We live in a society that likes to kick people when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
