Quotes About Society

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.