Top 1200 Modern Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine.

During the formulation of policies, we encourage discussion and listen. We should canvass opinions from all sectors of society - especially relevant stakeholders, those who work on the front line, and the youth - with a view to seeking consensus in society.

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.

I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

What kind of a society will we see in 2025? I am hopeful that it will be a 'prevention-based society.'

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

We gotta educate the kids. You've got to do your job as a citizen, but the same time, you have to also give the tools to the society to learn and create their habits so it's a seamless transition to become a better society.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Those of us involved in football must be aware of the power we have to help. We also have a responsibility to return to society all that society has given to us.

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

Mike Cernovich is not everything that's wrong with society, but he is definitely the low hanging fruit of what's wrong with society.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Up until I was 30 I really didn't date seriously outside of my race because I felt like society - not my parents, not my friends - society was telling me I had to pick a Black man.

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.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in.

We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no matter what you do, you're never going to be what society depicts as what's perfect, because that's not real. The only point that you have to make is that 'I'm being me.'

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.