3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
3 December 2020 Mario Batali Are we Darwinists – where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
3 December 2020 Peter L. Berger Even if one is interested only in one’s own society, which is one’s prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
3 December 2020 K. D. Lang We’re in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people’s musical taste.
3 December 2020 Charles Rangel I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
3 December 2020 Roland Barthes There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
3 December 2020 C. Northcote Parkinson The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
3 December 2020 Charles Rangel Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
3 December 2020 Barry Bonds Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn’t have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
3 December 2020 Michel Foucault Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
3 December 2020 George J. Mitchell In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
3 December 2020 Christiane Amanpour In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J We’re going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
3 December 2020 John Cheever All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
3 December 2020 Kathleen Turner You shouldn’t get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
3 December 2020 Peter Guber The idea is, we’re still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
3 December 2020 Pope Paul VI Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Pamela Anderson The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
