Society Quotes - Page 8

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.