This Society Quotes

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?