Best 3026 quotes in «society quotes» category

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

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

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Society's the mother of convention.

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.