Society Quotes - Page 10

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

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

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

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.

All progress means war with society.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

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

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.