Our Society Quotes - Page 3

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe, in time- after how many executions? - people will come to realize the futility of randomly selecting a few people to die each year.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.