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Society Quotes
"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."
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"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."
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"If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?"
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"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
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"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."
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"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."
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"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
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"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
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"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."
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"The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique."
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"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
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"It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."
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"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
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"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."
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"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
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"I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy."
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"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
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"War never leaves where it found a nation."
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"I think the first duty of society is justice."
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"The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion."
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"The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
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"I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous, subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blashphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and any one who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
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"Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud."
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"We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted."
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"Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society."
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."
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"I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty."
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"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
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"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
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