Quotes:We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken,
society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
View quotes by Ronald ReaganSome people strengthen the
society just by being the kind of people they are.
View quotes by John GardnerWe are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a
society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
View quotes by Jean BaudrillardThe amount of eccentricity in a
society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
View quotes by John Stuart MillThere are only two classes in good
society in England the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes
View quotes by George Bernard ShawWhat kind of
society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
View quotes by Milton FriedmanI love America. I like being there, the culture of movies. There are problems as there are in any
society, but I'm not anti-American. I love NY particularly; LA is an acquired taste which I haven't quite acquired.
View quotes by Sam MendesIn a democratic
society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
View quotes by Eleanor RooseveltRemove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of
society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
View quotes by David OgilvySolitude shows us what should be;
society shows us what we are.
View quotes by Robert CecilIn the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in
society take for granted.
View quotes by David CameronIn a civilized
society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
View quotes by Geoffrey FisherOur
society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
View quotes by Matthew ArnoldNo
society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
View quotes by Eugene IonescoWe live in a
society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
View quotes by Carl SaganA
society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
View quotes by Mary McCarthyEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a
society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
View quotes by John Stuart MillThe worker is the slave of capitalist
society, the female worker is the slave of that slave (The Re-conquest of Ireland)
View quotes by James ConnollyThere is something utterly nauseating about a system of
society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
View quotes by Harold WilsonIt is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as
society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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