Society Quotes - page 6

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. (John Forbes Nash)
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. View quote
Paul Krugman
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. View quote
Amartya Sen
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. View quote
Derek Walcott
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. View quote
Jacques Delors
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive. View quote
Hugh Kingsmill
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society. View quote
Rick Santorum
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. (Edmund Burke)
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. View quote
Robert Frost
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. View quote
Michael Crichton
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. View quote
John Rawls
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society. View quote
John Rawls
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. View quote
Margaret Mead
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t. View quote
Margaret Mead
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. View quote
Margaret Mead
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex. View quote
Margaret Mead
A general definition of civilization a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. (Anne Rice)
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. View quote
William S. Burroughs
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. View quote
E. M. Forster