Of all the things we have done, the most important – the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation – is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
I define ‘social thriller’ as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ – the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
I don’t know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society – the system for what we own (assets), who we are (identity), how we make decisions (governance), and more in an increasingly digital world. It’s going to be a wild ride.
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
I fell in love with Norman Mailer’s ‘Of a Fire on the Moon’, a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA – and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We’re connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
To be sure Plato did not favor ‘affirmative action’ to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he enroll women in his school.
It’s long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Black men constantly receive the message that they can’t make it in life through using legitimate means, and the only way they gain society’s respect is through the street game.
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn’t yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
We live in a disposable society. It’s easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling.
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
I’ve only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it’s important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.
You can never squash something and assume it’s not going to come back in some fashion. It’s going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it.
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
We live in a very unequal society.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.
I’m really not interested in other people’s opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it’s been a hard transition in society – just take a look at the divorce rate – to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.
We live in a disposable, ‘cast-off and throw-away’ society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.
Music is always a commentary on society.
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that’s only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There’s an enormous amount of cooperation.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
