This Society Quotes

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

For me, my dream came true. But for society it showed me that people want to move on, to look to the future. We said something, we made a statement.

What's done to the children is done to society.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

An armed society is a polite society.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.