Society Quotes - Page 20

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.