3 December 2020 Colin Powell What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Schiller Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
3 December 2020 Larry Page If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
3 December 2020 William J. Brennan, Jr. Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
3 December 2020 Shel Silverstein He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don’t think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
3 December 2020 Jose Mourinho The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
3 December 2020 Ibrahim Babangida At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
3 December 2020 H. Rap Brown When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
3 December 2020 Joan D. Vinge But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
3 December 2020 Robert W. Service I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one’s neighbors.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
3 December 2020 Robert Casey Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
3 December 2020 John W. Gardner The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
3 December 2020 Dorothy Fields The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
3 December 2020 Max Cannon People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
