Society Quotes - Page 23

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Work is a four-letter word.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York .

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.