An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
~By Roger Bannister ~
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
We live in an anaesthetized society.
~By Tony Snow ~
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
~By A. Bartlett Giamatti ~
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
~By Ayn Rand ~
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 ~
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
~By Robert Bork ~
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
~By Lawrence Kohlberg ~
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
~By Valerie Solanas ~
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.
~By William Hamilton ~
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
~By Rene Cassin ~
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
~By Irving R. Kaufman ~
But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
~By Hans-Georg Gadamer ~
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 ~
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
~By John Burroughs ~
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
~By Dan Marino ~
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
~By Charles Edison ~
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
~By Adrienne Clarkson ~
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
~By Herbert Read ~
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
~By George Soros ~
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
~By John Major ~
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
~By Robert Cecil ~
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
~By John Naisbitt ~
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
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.
~By Peter Kropotkin ~
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
~By Frank Dane ~
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 ~
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
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 human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
~By Edward Bond ~
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 ~
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
~By Marya Mannes ~
We live in a kissy society.
~By Michael Bergin ~
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
~By Salvador Dali ~
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
~By Harry Mathews ~
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
~By David Bohm ~
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
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 ~
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
~By Lester Bowie ~
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
~By Dennis Prager ~
I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.
~By John Cameron ~
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
~By Martin Yan ~
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
~By Albert Camus ~
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
~By Kent Conrad ~
Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
~By John Grierson ~
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
~By Alex Grey ~
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
~By Charles Rangel ~
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
~By Hazel Scott ~
Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history.
~By Ferenc Madl ~
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
~By Hal Holbrook ~
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
~By Walter Gropius ~
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 ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
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 ~
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~By Ayn Rand ~
In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
People who know what is good for other people all the time are as big a menace in our society as the capitalists.
~By May Hobbs ~
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