Quotes About Society

Design is a response to social change.

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.