Top 1200 American Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much a part of the society, it will reduce your soul also to a non-entity. Beware, before you have lost your whole opportunity. Don't be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

The rising tide of single-parent households threatens American society.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

If I grew up in a truly color-blind society, I would not be a black American.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be better than the American because you aren't American. You have to do your own stuff.

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.

Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Because Bollywood reflects society, we are all living in a society. We are not a special entity. So whatever prejudices society has for us, we carry into the films.

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.

American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.

If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.

I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

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

We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.