952 private quotes tagged society

“I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.”— Sebastian Junger

“I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.”— Ian MacKaye

“RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.”— Frances O'Grady

“Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.”— David Korten

“The whole system of society tells you what to do.”— Barry White

“That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.”— Kenneth L. Pike

“I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.”— Frances O'Grady

“Society is at odds with itself.”— Clint Eastwood

“What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.”— Simon Mainwaring

“Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.”— Morihei Ueshiba

“A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.”— Robert Bork

“It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.”— Roy H. Williams

“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.”— Eugene Ionesco

“Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.”— Ingrid Newkirk

“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”— Thomas Mann

“The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.”— Theresa May

“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”— Ernestine Rose

“The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.”— Tim Holden

“We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.”— Barbara Jordan

“There is no higher value in our society than integrity.”— Arlen Specter

“As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.”— Lauryn Hill

“I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”— Alan Greenspan

“The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.”— Ai Weiwei

“The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.”— Simone Weil

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”— Isaac Asimov