Quotes About Society

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

The one single factor that determines society's success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.