Society Quotes - Page 9

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?