Society Quotes - Page 20

• Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Communication, Home

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

  Henry Miller

  Optimistic, Eye, Land

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.319, New Directions Publishing

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• Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

  John Roberts

  Hints, Facts

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• As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Dog, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.105, Gibbs Smith

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• I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Usual, Vulgar

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wind, Sowing

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.367, Penguin

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• The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Air, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.137

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• Justice and truth are the common ties of society

  John Locke

  Ties, Justice, Common

  John Locke (1828). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works”, p.35

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• So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody.

  Bill Maher

  War, Should Have, Drug

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Russia, Heaven, Earth

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• Coward is the most misused word in our society.

  Doug Stanhope

  Coward, Misused Words, Our Society

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

  Albert Brooks

  Littles, Areas, Felt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

  Dov Davidoff

  Together, Woven, Fabric

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 13, 2012

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• As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Ideas, Missing

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• I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Support, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

  Ernest Jones

  Men, Outrun, Secured

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

  John Lennon

  Hippie, Artist, Reflection

  John Lennon, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dorothée Hansen (1995). “John Lennon: drawings, performances, films”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

  John Lennon

  Mean, People, Drug

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• There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York .

  William Temple

  Men, Organization, Selfishness

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• What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Believe, Science, Belief

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• To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

  Mencius

  Ignorance, Knowing, Understanding

  Mencius (1942). “The Book of Mencius: (abridged)”

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• We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

  Leif Johansson

  Two Sides, Perspective, Environmental

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• Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

  John Clapham

  Progress, Environmental, Prosperity

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