Society Quotes - Page 16

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

American society has gone completely into denial.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.