Society Quotes - Page 18

Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.