Society Quotes - Page 21

• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Law, Minorities

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Class, Matter

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  17 Copy quote

• Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, White, House

  562 Copy quote

• The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Spiritual, Mean, Exercise

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.105, Pickle Partners Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Cherish, Mark

  50 Copy quote

• The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Degradation, Decay

  7 Copy quote

• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Criminals

  17 Copy quote

• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Political, Paying Taxes, Cooperation

  Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue (dissenting opinion) (1927)

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Pyramids, Hatred

  229 Copy quote

• The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

  Isaac Barrow

  Happiness, Order, Preparation

  6 Copy quote

• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

  Henry George

  Children, Clothes, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  Candace Bushnell

  Inspiring, Money, Powerful

  8 Copy quote

• 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)”

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  44 Copy quote

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

  John Clapham

  Progress, Environmental, Prosperity

  46 Copy quote

• Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

  Clare Oliver

  Motivational, Graduation, Destiny

  7 Copy quote

• Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

  John Chancellor

  America, People, Innovation

  4 Copy quote

• It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.

  Etienne de La Boetie

  Fall, People, Liberty

  31 Copy quote

• We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?

  Paul Davies

  Science, Intelligent, Years

  9 Copy quote

• With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

  Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

  Tim Freeman

  Gun, Collecting Things, Drug

  69 Copy quote

• Honor is better than honors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Integrity, Honor

  43 Copy quote

• There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

  James Florio

  Gun, Weapons, Dangerous

  6 Copy quote