Society Quotes - Page 26

• Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Novelists, Bears, Drag

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• Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

  James Adams

  Progress Of Society, Car, Gas

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• The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Catholic, Church, Degrees

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• After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Change, Moon, Mars

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

  Charles Lamb

  Ornaments, Might, Ifs

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.340

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• Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

  Brian Aldiss

  Firsts, Fit

  "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.

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• MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Wife, Noblemen

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.730, Library of America

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• On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

  Jon Stewart

  Average, Three, News

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

  Norman O. Brown

  Psychology, Progress, Neurosis

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Impossible, Sometimes, Snob

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.8

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• The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

  H. L. Mencken

  Noses, Demand, Certainty

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

  Henry Adams

  Indulge In, Laughing, Vices

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1505, Open Road Media

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• In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

  Khalil Gibran

  Effort, Gold, Teeth

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

  Candace Bushnell

  Inspiring, Money, Powerful

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

  Clare Oliver

  Motivational, Graduation, Destiny

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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

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• Honor is better than honors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Integrity, Honor

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• 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

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