Society Quotes - Page 13

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.