952 private quotes tagged society

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” — B. R. Ambedkar

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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” — Thomas Browne

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“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” — John Locke

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“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.” — David Hume

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“Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.” — Jessamyn West

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“In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.” — Geoffrey Fisher

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“Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.” — Dorothy Day

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“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.” — Evelyn Glennie

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“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” — Ai Weiwei

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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” — Ernst Fischer

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“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.” — Salvador Dali

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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.” — Michel Foucault

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“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.” — Charles Horton Cooley

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“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.” — William Makepeace Thackeray

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“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.” — Naomi Wolf

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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” — Ruben Blades

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“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.” — Erma Bombeck

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“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.” — Peter Fonda

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“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!” — Henrik Ibsen

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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” — Isaac Asimov

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