Society Quotes - Page 3

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated... It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

I want a society free of human trafficking

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.