This Society Quotes
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.
People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.
Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.
A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.
An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.
The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.