This Society Quotes

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.