Quotes About Society

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

People who say the system works work for the system.

How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.