Quotes
Quotes about Society
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If weâre looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldnât test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
The common damn'd shun their society.
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.
While foulest fiends shun thy society.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Individual commitment to a group effortâthat is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get resolved, then escalates into feelings of betrayal, rage and revenge. Inner feelings of rage soon spill over into all aspects of society. Social stress multiplies daily with every new report of political upheaval, child abuse, drug abuse, workplace violence, children bringing guns to school, homelessness, ethnic wars or some other crisis. The root cause of a lot of these social stresses is the inner violence created by dysfunctional communication between the heart and the mind. As social stress increases, we're faced with a choice: Retreat into fear and isolation, become angry and bitter, try to ignore it all, or take responsibility for our own stress reactions. Bobby Jagdev For peace, we must prepare for war. Slade Whitfield -Doc Childre.
