Society Quotes - Page 5

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual. It tries in every possible way to destroy you for its own purposes. It needs clerks, it needs stationmasters, deputy-collectors, policemen, magistrates, it needs soldiers. It does not need human beings.

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.