Society quotes:
- "Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a ..."
By: Lord Acton - "American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything ..."
By: Henry B. Adams - "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, ..."
By: John Adams - "The happiness of society is the end of government. "
By: John Adams - "The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to ..."
By: Alfred Adler - "An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "No emancipation without that of society. "
By: Theodor Adorno - "Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Perhaps the true society will grow tired of development and, out of freedom, leave possibilities ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Society is integral even before it undergoes totalitarian ule. Its organization also embraces those at ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "There is some reason to fear that the involvement of non-Western peoples in the conflicts ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and ..."
By: Amos Bronson Alcott - "Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized ..."
By: Saul Alinsky - "In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual ..."
By: Steve Allen - "Hopefully in ten to twenty years our society will get to the point where sexual ..."
By: Tom Allen - "Why me, because it's my revenge on this robotic society, because someone has to do ..."
By: G. G. Allin - "But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society ..."
By: Christiane Amanpour - "In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play ..."
By: Christiane Amanpour - "Society lives by faith, and develops by science. "
By: Henri Frederic Amiel - "The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying ..."
By: David Amram - "Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping ..."
By: Kofi Annan - "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he ..."
By: Aristotle - "Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with ..."
By: Matthew Arnold - "With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of ..."
By: Antonin Artaud - "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. ..."
By: Isaac Asimov - "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society ..."
By: Isaac Asimov - "Changing the way we measure things is vital. So is decompartmentalising society-making sure that economics ..."
By: David Attenborough - "Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. "
By: Margaret Atwood - "It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, ..."
By: W. H. Auden - "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has ..."
By: W. H. Auden
- "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, ..."
By: W. H. Auden - "Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. "
By: Alfred Austin - "Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in ..."
By: Irving Babbitt - "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. "
By: James A. Baldwin - "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious ..."
By: James A. Baldwin - "Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, ..."
By: Alec Baldwin - "Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. "
By: Honore de Balzac - "We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because ..."
By: Antonio Banderas - "There are people who want to be writers because they think writers are celebrated people ..."
By: Russell Banks - "Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is ..."
By: Dave Barry - "The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat. "
By: Dave Barry - "There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to ..."
By: Roland Barthes - "Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a ..."
By: Roland Barthes - "We have become a society that trades frequently. Investors often act on every tick in ..."
By: Maria Bartiromo - "I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that ..."
By: Alan Bates - "A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow ..."
By: Jean Baudrillard - "Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even ..."
By: Jean Baudrillard - "We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of ..."
By: Jean Baudrillard - "What is a society without a heroic dimension? "
By: Jean Baudrillard - "Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to ..."
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the ..."
By: Brendan Behan - "The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, ..."
By: Bo Bennett - "Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since ..."
By: Robert Bennett - "We live in a kissy society. "
By: Michael Bergin - "The simple point which I am concerned to make is that where ultimate values are ..."
By: Isaiah Berlin - "One prominent conservative cleric recently remarked that Iranian "society is on the threshold of an ..."
By: Howard Berman - "We should try to expand our efforts to promote civil society in Iran through the ..."
By: Howard Berman - "Perhaps after all it is hope that really determines whether an age is or is ..."
By: John Desmond Bernal - "The task which the scientists have undertaken_the understanding and control of nature and of man ..."
By: John Desmond Bernal - "To talk of the contribution of Marx to science seems almost superfluous, for Marx himself ..."
By: John Desmond Bernal - "The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the ..."
By: Georges Bernanos - "All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We ..."
By: William Bernbach - "Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing ..."
By: Aneurin Bevan
- "The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. "
By: Joe Biden - "Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is ..."
By: Ambrose Bierce - "As our society progresses and genuine experience becomes a riskier and riskier enterprise, so the ..."
By: Kathryn Bigelow - "Obviously I don't have a crystal ball, but there's a threat that this tensely balanced ..."
By: Kathryn Bigelow - "Strange Days is a fictional film, so there was liberty to create a canvas that ..."
By: Kathryn Bigelow - "It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the ..."
By: Timothy H. Bishop - "The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, ..."
By: Timothy H. Bishop - "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. "
By: Ruben Blades - "We have to realise that the power of Capitalism doesn't flow from international summits, or ..."
By: John Blair - "We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the ..."
By: Matt Blunt - "I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are ..."
By: Erma Bombeck - "Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into ..."
By: Erma Bombeck - "All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being ..."
By: Edward Bond - "Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only ..."
By: Edward Bond - "Our unconscious makes us sane; it is only in an insane society that our unconscious ..."
By: Edward Bond - "Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once ..."
By: Edward Bond - "So society has become more and more disorientated, lost and destructive. "
By: Edward Bond - "The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated ..."
By: Edward Bond - "A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. "
By: Kjell Magne Bondevik - "We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. "
By: Kjell Magne Bondevik - "Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but ..."
By: Barry Bonds - "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. "
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer - "The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of ..."
By: Daniel J. Boorstin - "I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love ..."
By: Alain de Botton - "We think the answer to the problems of society lie in being able to raise ..."
By: Lester Bowie - "We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society. "
By: Lester Bowie - "It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its ..."
By: Barbara Boxer - "If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is ..."
By: Paul D. Boyer - "Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of ..."
By: Jacob Bronowski - "I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. ..."
By: Emily Bronte - "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the ..."
By: Anita Brookner - "Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge ..."
By: Pat Brown - "I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should ..."
By: Chester Brown
