Society Quotes - Page 22

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.