Best 3026 quotes in «society quotes» category

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 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 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 no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.