Quotes:There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the
society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
View quotes by Norman DouglasNo-one wants to say that people don't have the right to do it. But I think we need to confront this issue about how we integrate people properly into our
society [on wearing a veil]
View quotes by Tony BlairIn bourgeois
society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
View quotes by Karl MarxThe paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the
society in which he is being educated.
View quotes by James BaldwinIn a consumer
society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy
View quotes by Ivan IllichAs our
society progresses and genuine experience becomes a riskier and riskier enterprise, so the desire for it will increase.
View quotes by Kathryn BigelowTo give up the task of reforming
society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
View quotes by Alan PatonSociety does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
View quotes by Karl MarxAll partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of
society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
View quotes by Alice WalkerThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than
society gathers wisdom.
View quotes by Isaac AsimovI know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of
society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.
View quotes by Thomas JeffersonA sporting system is the by-product of
society and its political system, and it is just boyhood dreaming to suppose you can ever take politics out of sport.
View quotes by Peter HainTo give up the task of reforming
society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
View quotes by Alan PatonWhy should
society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
View quotes by Erich FrommA
society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
View quotes by Jean BaudrillardRadical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane
society.
View quotes by Pope John Paul IIHas there ever been a
society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
View quotes by Jacob BronowskiIn modern
Society, one thing after another, this spice on that, ensures a kind of memoristic vacuum, and Fleur Mont's passage of arms with Majorie Ferrar was, by the spring of 1926, well-nigh forgotten
View quotes by John GalsworthyThe function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its
society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
View quotes by Lionel TrillingCivilization is the progress toward a
society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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