Quotation Explorer - 'Society'

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John W. Gardner

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. - Pearl S. Buck

We are defined by how we choose to exist. Responsibility towards and contribution to society is part of how we make a difference. Every human being wants to make a difference; one of the ways we might do this is through our contribution to communities . - Sameh Elsayed

A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. - Joseph Bottum

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John W. Gardner

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. - Marilyn Manson

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. - Martin Luther King Jr.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] - John F. Kennedy

If I have done good for someone I have done bad for the conservative society. - Amit Abraham

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground? - Mehmet Murat ildan

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. - Karl Kraus

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly. - Habeeb Akande

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. - Orson Scott Card

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. - Malcolm X

And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference. - Lourd de Veyra

Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society . - Usama Gondal

Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing. We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn’t complete yet. - M.F. Moonzajer

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now. - Natalie de Clare

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. - Oscar Wilde

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. - Margaret Mead

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. - Ron Paul

Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate. - Ayaan Hiri Ali

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. - Thomas Jefferson

My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; ‘living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships’. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death - Jarred Cole

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men. - Katha Pollitt

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Reuben Blades

In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws. - Charles de Montesquieu

The best thing any man can do or be which will be of utmost importance both to him and the society is to be a "TRUE CHRISTIAN - Johnson Bandi

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives. - Umberto Eco

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening. - Unknown

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. - David Grayson

Since we aim for a healthy life for all, we should teach young girls that their worth can't be validated by dating older rich men, because that is risky for their health. Until we change certain perceptions in society, we will keep fighting the same battles. - Gugu Mona

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. - Eric Hoffer

We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect; this is costing us lives. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. - Ashley Montagu

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. - Frédéric Bastiat

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. - Barack Obama

Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society. - Sunday Adelaja

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love is the garland without thread that bound us together as a family, as a society, as a nation, and for the humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - Dean William R. Inge

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy. - Debasish Mridha

Society teaches us that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The bill of rights informs us that we have the right to keep it to ourselves. - Brian Randleas

If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status. - Santosh Kalwar

Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly. - Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar

To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light - Debasish Mridha

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life. - Jimmy Carter

If a society does not value love and kindness, that society has no value. - Debasish Mridha

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson II

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things - William Coperwaite

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society. - John Legend

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. - Ludwig von Mises

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

All I know is a society afraid to even talk of prayer, is a society that doesn't have a prayer.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

To be out of touch with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing. - Mona Eltahawy

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. - Sam Harris

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing - Glenn Gould

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind. - Winston S. Churchill

A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit. - Atif Iqbal Khan

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy. - Debasish Mridha

The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical. - Debasish Mridha

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. - Dinesh D'Souza

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. - Norman Douglas

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. - Alexis De Tocqueville

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences. - Hollace M. Metzger

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. - Elise Boulding

The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it. - Matthew Donnelly

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. - Michael Bassey Johnson

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. - Catharine A. MacKinnon

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. - Aristotle

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR. - Sunday Adelaja

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. - Pope John Paul II

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them. - Abraham Flexner

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart. - Salman Rushdie

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this. - Friedrich Engels

In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life. - Norris Henderson

Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence? - Vironika Tugaleva

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood. - Debasish Mridha

19. The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that the society was taught to respect all workers. - Sunday Adelaja

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership. - Tomson Highway

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People begin to think that there is no natural process to success, hence the fraudulent nouveau riche (swindlers, drug pushers, 419 scammers etc.) begin to become respected in the society - Sunday Adelaja

Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society. - Eraldo Banovac

Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight. - Solomon E. Asch

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'. - Abhijit Naskar

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet. - Todd McFarlane

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. - Brian Tracy

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences. - John Stuart Mill

Through positive civil actions, the church can influence the society. - Sunday Adelaja

Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag. - Batuhan Ibal

I refuze (refuse) to allow society to dictate my limitations. - Tony Kates

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls. - First Lady Michelle Obama

In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of the culture, and demands respect. - Sean S. Kamali

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well. - Iván Fernández Anaya

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. - Lewis H. Lapham

A little dust does not make an ocean dirty. By blaming you change the society by making a lot of dust. By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty- for sure we can change our society and clean up the dust. - Debasish Mridha

Peaceful society, peaceful world. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone. A statement so far to the right that it conceded the political centre ground to Judge Dredd. - Frankie Boyle

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. - Naomi Wolf

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of actionand expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society. - Simon LeVay

It takes time, hard-work and a lot of sacrifices to upgrade a Curriculum Vitae,however the day you lose your honor in the society, it will take only few seconds to make it become useless. - m.k dindoyal

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. - Isabel Paterson

Ethics are the moral compass of a human society that change and adjust over time. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature. - James H. Billington

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property. - Ambrose Bierce

Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficialto the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction. - Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

The freer a society, the tenser its tensions. - Cole Huffman

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. - Christina Hoff Sommers

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely. - Debasish Mridha

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. - Thomas Jefferson

To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don’t study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition. - Debasish Mridha

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time. - Jack Kerouac

[about a hat] You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society. - Alice LeGrow

The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society. - John Mark Reynolds

When the society missteps, it's the youth who first fall sideways. - Nyona Matende

Have you ever stopped to realize the disrespect that is afoot in our society? From the White House to God's House, and even Mom's house... Just remember that disrespect creates distance. How far have we strayed from home? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails to protect its children, there will be no one else to learn from. - Gugu Mona

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. - Ambrose Bierce

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

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole. - Santosh Kalwar

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. - Asa Don Brown

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand - Ole H.

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured. - Andrew Coyne

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as consumers, as citizens – who create the environment in which business operates. - Jon Miller

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. - Robert M. Drake

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. - Charles de Montesquieu

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear. - Nelson Mandela

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children. - Asa Don Brown

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. - Benjamin Disraeli

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. - Aristotle

the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths - rassool jibraeel snyman

The Protestants believe in the higher power through the truth they derive from the word of God. They got to know the truth and that truth set them free and they took the truth to the society and set their whole generation free. - Sunday Adelaja

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics. - Abhijit Naskar

When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them? - Martin Guevara Urbina

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage. - Muriel Fox

Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society. - Mick Karabegovic

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? - Paul Sweeney

A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice. - Newton Gatambia

Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality - Sunday Adelaja

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through. - Stephen King

Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals - Thiruman Archunan

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that. - Oscar Wilde

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all. - Malcolm Gladwell

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. - Steve Allen

Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics. - Randall Munroe

What was achieved under Nazi-fascism through bloody terror against the organized workers’ movement and the people is to be achieved again today in West Europe through the information society - Red Army Faction

I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true likeness of the real society of today. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed - Luke Rhinehart

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society. - Richard Diaz

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. - Sunday Adelaja

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. - Albert Camus

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom. - Susan Howatch

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. - Thomas Paine

When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces. - Michael Bassey Johnson

we all are the part of illusion society, those who know, they know how to come out - Sandeep Sethi

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second. - Courtney Milan

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. - Mark Skousen

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state. - John Stuart Mill

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness. - W.H. Auden

’s another focus in the book was on the declining level of society that is characterized by an attitude of entitlement with principles of leadership. - Chris Salamone

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance. - Abhijit Naskar

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. - Murray N. Rothbard

your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity). - Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live forever as a treasure. - Debasish Mridha

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join. - Ben Elton

A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of Godthat does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in whichit is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that? - Oscar A. Romero

The needs of society determine its ethics. - Maya Angelou

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The best way to transform a society is to empower the women of that society. - Debasish Mridha

We the people, the 99% don’t fit in the Hierarchy of Modern Society; the 1 % is not an expanding entity like the Universe, the 99% will never fit in. - Nynke Visser

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used. - Newton G Kibiringi

Our society encourages women to place a very high value on maternity as an essential part of female identity, both a high moral calling and the deepest source of satisfaction on earth. It's not easy to redefine motherhood as handing your baby over to a stranger. - Katha Pollitt

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenal

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. - Raoul Vaneigem

Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are the very cornerstones of any democratic society. I firmly believe that it is the very right to question the status quo that allows a society to develop and prosper.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow. - Henry Steele Commager

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today. - Sara Sheridan

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society. - Stefan Emunds

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual. - Håkan Nesser

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being. - Duop Chak Wuol

Write about the beauties of life to create a beautiful society. - Debasish Mridha

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer. - Ayn Rand

Society judges people by their successes. I get attracted by their dedication, simplicity, and humility. - Debasish Mridha

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. - Martha Gellhorn

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for schools but not for Fajr. - Nouman Ali Khan

when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS - Rashedur Ryan Rahman

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with goods they want to acquire. - Ludwig von Mises

Josie is a Pye, said Marilla sharply, so she can’t help being disagreeable. I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don’t know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles. - L.M. Montgomery

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society. - Steven Magee

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. - Ivan Illich

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines. - A.E. Samaan

There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies. - A.E. Samaan

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself. - J.R. Rim

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Think differently to change the society. - Debasish Mridha

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship. - Robert E. Webber

Fuk society, they don't understand nobody. That's how works everything... - Deyth Banger

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Fraudulent money schemes are prevalent in the society - Sunday Adelaja

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives - John Lennon

A healthy society begins with healthy individuals. - Sabina Nore

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism. - Noam Chomsky

The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success. - Sunday Adelaja

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. - John Lennon

[Performance with purpose is] basically PepsiCo saying that companies can no longer perform and toss costs to society. We believe that the new future is public-private partnerships, where companies feel responsible for society at large. - Indra Nooyi

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society. - Man Ray

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst. - Orrin Woodward

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. - Thomas Jefferson

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am. - Marilyn Manson

woman who stays back with her abusive life ,never met a courageous man ,who holds her hand in open society - litymunshi

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

Trust yourself, because society always corrupt our confidence. - Al-Hanouf Halawi

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out. - Harry Browne

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people. - Robert Higgs

Society is full of possibilities, is this possible to make all to think like children then there will be no politics. - Vikram Roy

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse? - A.E. Samaan

It is not how much money or luxury you avail a child that counts, but how well you nurture and raise the child to become useful, and a more productive individual in the society that matters - Abdulzeez Henry Musa

Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain - Romeo Jr Baguyo

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. - Piaget

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself? - Jesse Ventura

Change in ourselves equals change in our society. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women andgirls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles andemotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasinglyhostile to the womenfolk - Oche Otorkpa

Something that is set can be broken, so are society standards and limits. - Unarine Ramaru

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

A movie that gets closer to the life's reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety. - Testy McTesterson

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer. - Bible Review

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. - Samuel Johnson

Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges. - Louis B. Wright

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human. - Charles Eisenstein

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. - Henry Thomas Buckle

I think it's important that we give back to society and our fellow man regardless of our professions. We all need help at times. And when we support each other, we're all a little stronger. - Rhonda Hopkins

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. - Edmund Burke

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja

Positive;Positive mindset, positive soul.Positive soul, positive spirit.Positive spirit, positive strength.Positive strength, positive action.Positive action, positive impart.Positive impact, positive society.Positive society, positive world. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. - Arthur Stringer

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. - Evelyn Cunningham

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Omens don't influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it's all upto you when YOU want. - M.H. Rakib

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it! - Paul Lee

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. - Georges Bernanos

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. - Abhijit Naskar

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world. - Ellen F. Davis

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence." - , an excerpt from If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult? - John Maynard Keynes

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood. - Zhou Weihui

If God is so concerned about the state of truth in any society, I think that should begin to concern us as well. - Sunday Adelaja

Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market; we take silver or small change. - Chamfort

A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves! - Mehmet Murat ildan

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect - Joao Matod

Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives. - Santosh Kalwar

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. - Albert Einstein

The only strategy to protect and preserve a nation is to establish the golden rules and principles of the Kingdom of God in the society. - Sunday Adelaja

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in. - Debasish Mridha

When a society begins to lack men that, that they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land that is the kind of thing that brings sorrow to the heart of our King - Sunday Adelaja

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. - Alan W. Watts

Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness. - Srinivas Shenoy

The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible. - Sunday Adelaja

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. - Peter Maurin

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. - Jean Baudrillard

Society collapses when no two come together as one; however, when things do come together true beauty can occur. - James C. Reeves III

All systems of the society are meant to serve the mind, not the mind to serve the systems. - Abhijit Naskar

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. - Thomas Browne

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Positive impact, positive society. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

A society living by the laws of the world is moving towards a global crisis in all its spheres of life. - Sunday Adelaja

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country."[Don’t allow religious hooligans to dictate terms (The Times of India, January 16, 2008)] - Salman Rushdie

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation - Angela Y. Davis

Shoes are like society. Once in awhile they have to replace the worn out souls. - Kate McGahan

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. - Caspar David Friedrich

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. - Carl Sandburg

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. - Milton Friedman

In the human society, it is difficult to find all angels flapping there wings and all saints singing halleluya. - late chief gani fahewinmi

When the society missteps, the youths are the first to fall sideways. - Nyona Matende

To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society. - Debasish Mridha

Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society. - Saaif Alam

The value of someone is not determined by titles, positions and sects, but by the impact and the major contributions he/she makes in the society by digging a hole in the universe to build a foundation for the next generation that is coming. - Lydor Brunice

All women are beautiful; it's society who’s ugly. - Ben Mitchell

It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42 - Alaa Al Aswany

Most bad people are good people that don’t know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society. - Debasish Mridha

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties.. - Munia Khan

The problem with our society today is that when things fall apart we do remember to call upon the Lord, but when God answers our prayers we are too quick to exclude Him from those answered prayers. - Gugu Mona

We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society. - Debasish Mridha

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime - irak.ibrahim hussain didi

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. - Vishwas Chavan

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

Radical feminism is working for the eradication of domination and elitsim in all human relationships. This would make self-determination the ultimate good and require the downfall of society as we know it today. - Cellestine Ware

Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society. - Amit Kalantri

People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces. - Steven Magee

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected. - Howard Markel

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. - Ayn Rand

In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue. - Arzak Khan

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious. - Jim Morrison

Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it. - Paul Krugman

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds—and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried. - Mohammad Zayer

Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images - Mahnaz Afkhami

Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how. - Thiruman Archunan

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. - Edmund Burke

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress. - Abhijit Naskar

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!! - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today. - Sarah Addison Allen

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror. - Paul Verhaeghe

Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations. - Mmanti Umoh

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening. - Budd Schulberg

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society. - Karl Marx

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. - F. David Peat

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations. - Wade Davis

The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. - Mark Skousen

Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-(Woods oration-2008) - Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. - Sebastien Chamfort

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. - Guillermo Cabrera Infante

What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of. - Amit Abraham

For if you do not wish to be ‘just a number’ then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of yourself – born is the human void. - Nicole Bonomi

Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity. - Debasish Mridha

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises - Martin Buber

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. - Malcolm X

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. - Vladimir Nabokov

An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little. - Caitlyn Paige

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it. - Michelle Franklin

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game - Lucas Sterk

Not everyone is violent in a violence infected country or society. In those countries and societies many parents unknowingly teach their children hatred and violence. - Debasish Mridha

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club? - Nicky Wire

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. - Brian Tracy

Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets. - Solange nicole

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society - Sunday Adelaja

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors. - James Rozoff

The society of women is the element of good manners. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.

Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again. - Criss Jami

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. - Margaret Mead

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. - R. Buckminster Fuller

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. - Betty Friedan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The sportification process of bodily practices of certain society, generates new physical manifestations, essentially different, which will help in another process: the indoctrination of subjects with capital values. And this process happens in the dark, without people having consciousness of it. - Lucas Soares Adriano

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance. - Sherman A. Jackson

In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open". - Jury Nel

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights. - Orrin Woodward

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden

Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer. - Debasish Mridha

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. - John Stuart Mill

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. - Thomas Paine

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it. - James Russell Lowell

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society. - John Maynard Keynes

All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work. - R.A.Delmonico

Society is going to judge you no matter what you do. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society. - Sunday Adelaja

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse. - Francis Quarles

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time. - Richard M. Nixon

By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society. - Debasish Mridha

When there is no Personal Responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government. Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of Personal Responsibility. - Sunday Adelaja

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too. - Amish Tripathi

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Society reproduces itself antagonistically. - Rudolf J. Siebert

In my society, even the right things are wrong. - M.F. Moonzajer

when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people - Sunday Adelaja

Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am. - Anthony Anaxagorou

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives. - Auberon Herbert

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. - Friedrich Hayek

Humanity is when the society is able to care, protect and value one another. - Gugu Mona

The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society. - Abhijit Naskar

We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society. - Debasish Mridha

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. - Thomas J. Scheff

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society. - Jeffrey Tucker

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. - George Crabbe

The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

If the modern Protestant churches must maintain her place of relevance in the society, we would need to review where we missed it and how we have diverted from the teachings of the Protestants. - Sunday Adelaja

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations. - Husam Wafaei

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau

Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human. - Amber Deckers

Sick is a relative concept. We’re all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed. - Jo Nesbø

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie. - David Brin

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. - Ernst Fischer

Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice - Sunday Adelaja

A society is driven by social fear always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society. - Jason Read

One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick? - Donna Lynn Hope

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. - G. K. Chesterton

My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in. - Sunday Adelaja

People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring. - Gina Adel

We live in the irradiated lazy indoor cancer society. - Steven Magee

Blessed is the society with elderly souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If our society remember the iconic people by they hard work and self effort impacting our community, so I can consider myself as one of them because you will remember how hard I've been working to make it till there. - Amen Muffler

I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind! - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society - Sunday Adelaja

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it. - Mark R. Levin

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics. - Orrin Woodward

A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come. - Fela Durotoye

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. - Murray N. Rothbard

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings. - Joseph Campbell

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. - Brian W. Aldiss

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven - Michela Wrong

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. - Sir Winston Churchill

Society destroys your individuality, your soul. - Swami Dhyan Giten

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are? - Neal Shusterman

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - Edward Abbey

Society will not crumble if men take a turn at the dishes. - Linda P. Rouse

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal. - Edward Short

Every society has the criminals that it deserves. - Havelock Ellis

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT. - Russell Brand

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin

Home is the nesting ground for goodness to spring forth. Schools, churches and society influences but home is essential in the development and growth process. - Eveth Colley

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. - James Baldwin

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? - John Lennon

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Rich people don't elicit much sympathy.It is not about how to save, invest, spend, hide and give away money, but unmasking the true nature of money, how it works.Be the one to create the system that supports the kind of society we desire for ourselves and the future generation. - Prince Akwarandu

Don't be the slave for the society, be the entrepreneur for yourself. - Ade Santi

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship. - Swami Dhyan Giten

When all you have to face life situations with the attitude forced on to you by society traditions, you will then regret not being the mad you used to be but will never be again. - Sameh Elsayed

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society. - Santosh Kalwar

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language. - Kathy Acker

Communication is the mortar that holds humanity together; it’s the very currency of our society. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend. - Friedrich Hayek

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. - Marya Mannes

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity - Steven Magee

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes. - Debasish Mridha

Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society - Bertrand Russell

To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before. - Stanisław Lem

To create a kind society, be kind to all. - Debasish Mridha

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it. - R.A.Delmonico

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour. - Kenneth Rexroth

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in. - Mehmet Murat ildan

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment. - Jennifer Birkett

If you want to get the top position in the society then you have to be do something difference for the society. - Sudeb Gharami

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in the society in which he lives - irak.ibrahim hussain didi

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue. - Thiruman Archunan

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society. - Steven Magee

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church. - Sunday Adelaja

Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. - Steven Magee

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. - Fulton J. Sheen

Don't always think about being a subordinate, otherwise you would lose your self esteem and not succeed in society. - Saaif Alam

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. - Margaret Atwood

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world. - David Wong

There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society! - Mehmet Murat ildan

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. - Lee Iacocca

What goes on in our heads solely determines the level at which we function in society, our physical health, and the degree of our mental and emotional stability and maturity. - Renee Cefalu

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. - Robert Kegan

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society. - Testy McTesterson

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree. - David Brooks

Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric. - Swami Dhyan Giten

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England - C.G. Jung

In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally. - Wendy Shalit

CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color.... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized. - Baha'i International Community

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative. - David Cameron

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. - May Sarton

Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two. - Unarine Ramaru

Power of Position' always change with respect to time but 'Power of Person' never change.So develop yourself in such a way that society respect you because of your Identity not for your 'Power of Position - Vikram Singh Slathia

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society. - Debasish Mridha

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society. - Marty Rubin

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. - G. K. Chesterton

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water. - David Bowie

If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society. - Eunice Baumann-Nelson Ph.D PENOBSCOT

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved. - Rebecca Solnit

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. - W. H. Auden

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. - Milton Friedman

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement - Sunday Adelaja

If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society. - Debasish Mridha

In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost. - R.A.Delmonico

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism. - Edward R. Murrow

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. - Amartya Sen

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain. - Malcolm X

i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society - Sushil Singh

This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it. - Chris Matakas

...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish. - Jane Austen

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition. - Steve Maraboli

Or one could say that society is to ridged for the softness of a beautiful soul. Faith has its place, and that can never be taken away, So chin up. Don't let the world conform you or undervalue what and who you are. They can not kill your flame unless you let them. - Brandon Darlington

A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them? - Ilse Aichinger

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them. - Donna Lynn Hope

If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country,’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. - Sir Francis Bacon

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. - Aristotle

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. - Francis of Assisi

The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey.We can't isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in - Emi Iyalla

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S Truman

Positive society, positive world. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I love seeing young black women out in the world defying the "unfavorable odds" given by society. - Andrea L'Artiste

Responsibility entails that we demand and work for the change or transformation we yearn for in our society instead of wishful thoughts. - Chidi Prosper Agbugba

Society doesn't have values. People have values. - Milton Friedman

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. - Debasish Mridha

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. - Marie Brennan

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come. - Sara Sheridan

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body. - Jack Lessenberry

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses. - Phil Cooke

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth - M. James Airey

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. - George Sand

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true - Freeman Dyson

Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. - Lord Byron

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith

Dear Anarcho-Communist,If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to "oppress" and "exploit" you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.Sincerely, - Larken Rose