The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
~By Kurt Russell ~
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
~By Stephen Harper ~
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
~By Henry Steele Commager ~
The happiness of society is the end of government.
~By John Adams ~
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
~By Edward Bond ~
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
~By David Antin ~
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
~By Joe Biden ~
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
~By Larry Harvey ~
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
~By Joseph A. Schumpeter ~
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
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 ~
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
~By James Spader ~
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
~By Major Owens ~
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
~By John Madden ~
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
~By Jerry Garcia ~
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.
~By Robert Stone ~
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
~By Herbert Read ~
Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
~By Kate Winslet ~
If we come to power we will abolish the multi-ethnic society.
~By Hans Janmaat ~
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
~By Barbara Deming ~
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 ~
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 ~
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
~By Stella Blum ~
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
~By Peter Fonda ~
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 ~
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
~By Edward Abbey ~
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 ~
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
~By Charles Lawrence ~
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
~By Jessica Savitch ~
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
~By Tom Hiddleston ~
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
~By Alice Walker ~
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
~By Karl Marx ~
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.
~By Mary Hansen ~
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
~By Dean Koontz ~
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
~By Mary Robinson ~
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
~By Dave Barry ~
That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.
~By Michael Baden ~
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
~By Cokie Roberts ~
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
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.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
~By Mary Douglas ~
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
~By Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
~By Edward Bond ~
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 ~
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
~By Bob Ney ~
The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
~By Tadao Ando ~
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
~By Edward Bond ~
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
~By Gideon Welles ~
I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
~By Megan Fox ~
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
~By Thomas Babington ~
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
~By Valerie Solanas ~
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
~By David Mamet ~
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
~By Adam Smith ~
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 ~
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