Top 1200 American Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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.

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?

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.

I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

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.

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

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

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

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.

An armed society is a polite society.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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

Socialist society is a society of officials.

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

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.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

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.

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

A competitive society is a society of envy.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

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?

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

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.

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?

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

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

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.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing a novel if it didn't allude to the system into which these people are orchestrated - or an Eastern European writer, or a Russian writer, or a Chinese writer. Only American writers are able to imagine that the government and the corporations - all of it - seem to have no effect whatsoever.

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