Top 1200 Great Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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.

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

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

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.

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.

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.

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

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

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?

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.

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

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

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?

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

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.

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.

I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there's great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.

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.

America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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?

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.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

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

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can, in turn, be a blessing to society.

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.

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 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.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

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!

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.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.'

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. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

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.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

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.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

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.

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

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.

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

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

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.

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 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.