3 December 2020 A. Bartlett Giamatti There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
3 December 2020 Thom Mayne The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
3 December 2020 Georges Bernanos The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
3 December 2020 Paul Sweeney How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
3 December 2020 Candace Bushnell Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
3 December 2020 Adrienne Rich The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
3 December 2020 Carter Burwell Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
3 December 2020 Ayn Rand Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
3 December 2020 Abdolkarim Soroush We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
3 December 2020 Guy Kawasaki If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
3 December 2020 Pauline Hanson A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
3 December 2020 Huston Smith Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
