Society Quotes - Page 17

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.