Society Quotes - page 98

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. (Murray Rothbard)
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. View quote
William H. Seward
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war. View quote
William H. Seward
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure. View quote
Jeff Koons
When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart. View quote
Tom Morello
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say. View quote
Clive James
To this day I don't know what started it [the killings]. The person to blame is sitting right across from you. It's the only person. Not parents, not society, not pornography. I mean, those are just excuses. View quote
Jeffrey Dahmer
If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal. View quote
Chelsea Manning
My reference points were US companies. We were hugely influenced by large US chemical companies, especially DuPont. It was a very open company and we could take advantage of their learnings. The US is also a very open society. I could to go the US Association of Chemical Engineers and get the standards, data, etc. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. View quote
Randolph Bourne
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation. (Frans de Waal)
At the time, I was interested in reconciliation after fights, and I wanted to know how bonobos did it compared to chimpanzees. Very soon I discovered that they were much more sexual in everything they did, and that interested me - not so much for the sex part, even though that became a very hot topic, the peacemaking-through-sex thing - but much more how they have such a peaceful society, because they are much less violent than chimpanzees. View quote
Frans de Waal
Regarding the controversial article "Society consists of people”, it is a fact that negroes or negroid, Sub-Saharan persons live in something resembling a western society only in places where order is kept by a white system of violent dominance (police, army and the justice system). It is likewise a fact that the so-called western structures start to crumble and sinking towards the typical African state of being starts immediately as blacks reach a majority or dominant position. Examples of this include post-independence Haiti and post-apartheid South Africa. View quote
Jussi Halla-aho
The ruling Left milks the working Swedes to maintain a predominantly idle immigrant population, who thankfully vote for the Left. Swedish society has to support two parasites, each living in a symbiotic relationship with the other. That is, in this particular game of thought. View quote
Jussi Halla-aho
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
What is scarce is money. The lack of money to spend on goods is what keeps the unemployed resources from producing more goods. Work, moreover, instead of being a curse, is desired more than anything else because the alternative is not enjoyment of leisure but the suffering of unemployment and deprivation. Of course, if people could get income without they would not object too much (although their self-respect in feeling they are useful members in society who are earning their income is too easily underestimated). But it is only by finding work they can obtain the necessary income they need. View quote
Abba Lerner
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
THE KEY TO ORGANIZING AN ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY IS TO ORGANIZE PEOPLE AROUND WHAT THEY CAN DO AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
For to me, this word Art, in its largest sense, signifies those who take pleasure in their work... Artist-carpenters who adjust with joy dovetails and mortises; artist-masons who handle lovingly their trowels; artist-cab drivers, proud of treating their horses humanely-what an ideal state of society that would be. View quote
Auguste Rodin
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us. (Oscar Wilde)
The only possible society is oneself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. View quote
Oscar Wilde