Top 1200 Mainstream Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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?

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)

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

An armed society is a polite society.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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