Society Quotes

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply a...

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it,...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press t...

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent socie...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in v...

The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are ...

..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...

Language is a social art.

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p...

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Expect poison from the standing water.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at ...

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative...

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bun...

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acqu...

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and th...

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic socie...

This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being...

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he wa...

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to bl...

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it ...

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the w...

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tie...

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacr...

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, m...

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society i...

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown...

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this t...

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are p...

If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and...

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates h...

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise ...

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's...

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a ma...

Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong wit...

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answe...

Yet our world of abundance, with seas of wine and alps of bread, has hardly turned out to be the ebu...

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined t...

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very d...

Who did the council fight?""It split in two and fought itself.""That's suicide!""No, ordinary behavi...

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small...

he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also...

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemm...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of hum...

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of g...

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman,...

Every one belongs to every one else.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking se...

No social stability without individual stability.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society...

People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic fu...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself int...

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are i...

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. W...

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to ...

Our present system is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic cons...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're look...

No, monsieur,” returned Monte Cristo “upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and ...

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes wil...

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private ...

The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-mi...

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relati...

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.