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For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.
~ Erich Fromm
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
~ Samuel Johnson
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.
~ Donald Phillip Verene
Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.
~ Stephen Colbert
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.
~ Edward Kennedy
I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.
~ Reggie Watts
The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself.
~ Jodi Picoult
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.
~ Theodore Schroeder
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
~ Julien Benda
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.
~ Kate Zambreno
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
~ Kitty Kelley
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
~ Wallace Stegner
I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.
~ Larry Winget
In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
~ Lord Mountbatten
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
~ Mason Cooley
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.
~ Matthew Arnold
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
~ Lord Byron
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
~ Woodrow Wilson
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
~ James Earl Jones
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
~ Henrik Ibsen
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
~ Harri Holkeri
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.
~ Prince