Best 3026 quotes in «society quotes» category

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

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

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

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.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

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.

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

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 nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

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

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

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.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

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

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.

We rise by lifting others.

We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

What times! What manners!

When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

Work is a four-letter word.

Work is the province of cattle.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

931. When a man plows and works hard, he becomes skillful in the affairs of life