Society Quotes - Page 12

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

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

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

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.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

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

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

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.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

An armed society is a polite society.

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.