Top 1200 Civilized Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

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.

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.

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.

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

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

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

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

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

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

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

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

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.

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

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

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

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.

It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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

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 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.

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.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

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

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

Socialist society is a society of officials.

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

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

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 right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

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

An armed society is a polite society.

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

A competitive society is a society of envy.

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

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 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?

An armed society is a free 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.

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.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

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.

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.