Society Quotes - Page 4

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

We rise by lifting others.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.