I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Erdogan’s persecution of his people is not simply a domestic matter. The ongoing pursuit of civil society, journalists, academics and Kurds in Turkey is threatening the long-term stability of the country.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
If we’re not protecting our women and we’re not protecting our girls and we’re not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what’s going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
The New Order wants to implement democracy in economy. It is an order to achieve a social, political, economic, and cultural society with Pancasila and Belief in God Almighty as our moral values.
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories – much of the debugging has to be done by others.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
I think the most important thing… is leadership. It’s something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don’t want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.
Farm workers are society’s canaries. Farm workers – and their children – demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society – a future world that could plausibly happen.
The women’s movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we’d break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we’d walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation – the result of which is impossible to predict.
Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
Let’s cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we’re right but listen like we’re wrong.
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
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.
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we’ll achieve a better world.
