Quotes About Society

Holidays are necessary celebrations of human collectiveness. It reminds us we're a part of society. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real usefulness were known to the world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal.

Alguien ha dicho que el hombre es, a los diez años, un animal; a los veinte, un loco; a los treinta, un fracasado; a los cuarenta, un falsario y a los cincuenta, un criminal.

In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

There is in God something analogous to "society". He is not a single person, loving himself alone, not a self-contained monad or "The One". He is triunity: three equal persons, each one dwelling in the other two by virtue of an unceasing movement of mutual love.

But, Miss Spencer, I should strike a note of caution. I know there have been women archaeologists in Greece, in Turkey. Even Egypt. But this is Peshawar. Pathan men don't much like the idea of women...' 'Don't much like the idea of women doing what?' 'Don't much like the idea of women.

By contrast, whatever happened to Maryam today wouldn't matter very much. She'd still inherit a business and a place in society. The rich lived in a different universe.

For girls, becoming women was inevitability, for boys, becoming men was ambition.

Why have the English remained so English?

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the "cause" of this war with nothing to evaluate "objectively" and argue about.

P166) That's the way things usually work in North Korea: money and violence stand in for law and order. We even have a saying for it: "The law is far; the fist is close." The regime that never tires of denouncing capitalism has birthed a society where money is king— more so than any capitalist society I have visited.

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

If every man and woman were encouraged to address their own needs and their own issues and faults, we would have a society filled with wisdom rather than a society filled with ideals.

Responsibility is a societal creation. No one is truly responsible for another. You do not owe your children anything. They do not owe you anything. If you wish to do, then do. If they wish to do, they may also do. That which comes from the heart is natural and satisfying. That which comes from the idea of responsibility is forced, artificial, and often produces resentment and the expectation for reciprocation.

If you seek to be a legend in your field, it will help you to understand that you will have to be comfortable being an outcast. For you will not fit into this society. And if you do fit neatly into this society, there is no way that you will be a legend.

communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.

Racists often take their cues on how to act from the way the government behaves. If the government is actively campaigning against racism, they hide their feelings and do nothing. If the government is indifferent to racism by not prosecuting it, then they feel it's okay to come out of hiding and attack.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday," Bathhouse John pointed out. "A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.