Our Society Quotes - Page 6

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.