Best 3026 quotes in «society quotes» category

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.

the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

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

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

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

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

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.

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 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.