top of page
.png){kind=small}
Society Quotes
"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
3
"In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes."
3
"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer."
3
"There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male."
3
"If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world."
3
"We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore."
3
"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society."
3
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
3
"We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house.I'm afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had -. And I'm afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears at the soul of this nation."
3
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."
3
"You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is."
3
"The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war."
3
"I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society."
3
"Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans."
3
"There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society."
3
"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
3
"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
3
"There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati."
3
"On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles."
3
"When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy."
3
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
3
"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
3
"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
3
"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."
3
"The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer."
3
"With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language."
3
"The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people."
3
"For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?"
3
"Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned."
3
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
3
"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."
3
"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic."
3
"Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers."
3
"Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness."
3
"Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status."
3
bottom of page