society quotes

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

There are some loony people in this world!

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

We live in ugly times.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘