Society Quotes - Page 6

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.