Society Quotes - Page 14

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.