Quotes About Society

The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.