This Society Quotes

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.

I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.