Society Quotes - Page 19

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.