Quotes About Society

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Fusion will be ready when society needs it.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.