Society Quotes - Page 11

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

n our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

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

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

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.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

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 only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.