The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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?
~By John Lennon ~
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
~By Paul Martin ~
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
~By Salvador Dali ~
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
~By David Rockefeller ~
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
~By Otto Schily ~
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
~By Shirley Hufstedler ~
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.
~By Catharine MacKinnon ~
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
~By Herbert Read ~
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Society is unity in diversity.
~By George H. Mead ~
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
~By John Woolman ~
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
~By Brad Holland ~
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
~By John McGahern ~
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
~By Stella Blum ~
I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
~By Georg Henrik von Wright ~
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
~By David Cameron ~
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
~By Michel Foucault ~
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
~By Louis Althusser ~
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
~By C. L. R. James ~
We live in a kissy society.
~By Michael Bergin ~
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
~By Mark Poster ~
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
~By Matt Blunt ~
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
~By W. H. Auden ~
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
~By Ralph Nader ~
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
~By Alex North ~
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
~By Thomas Babington ~
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.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
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.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
~By Margaret Oliphant ~
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
~By Michael Burgess ~
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
~By James Hillman ~
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.
~By Pia Zadora ~
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
~By Felix Adler ~
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
~By Simone Weil ~
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
~By Preston Manning ~
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
~By Steve Allen ~
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
~By Earl Browder ~
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
~By Penelope Lively ~
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
~By Tyne Daly ~
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
~By Washington Irving ~
What's done to children, they will do to society.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!
~By Lloyd Kaufman ~
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
~By Martin Sheen ~
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
~By Gregory Corso ~
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
~By Eric Sevareid ~
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
~By Matt Gonzalez ~
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
~By Johann Most ~
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
~By Robert McChesney ~
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
~By Felix Adler ~
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
~By Richard Wall ~
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
~By John Adams ~
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
~By Edward Bond ~
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
~By Kathy Acker ~
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
~By Thomas Paine ~
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~By Bayard Rustin ~
From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
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