A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
As far as hypnosis is concerned I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
Clearly society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.
But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
I come from that society and there is a common thread specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family and the unconditional love for one's children.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes packaged cake mixes frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
The function of the press in society is to inform but its role in society is to make money.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do and more importantly what they want to do.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Our society is not a community but merely a collection of isolated family units.
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
After a shooting spree they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.
The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Comedy we may say is society protecting itself - with a smile.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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?
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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.
We live in a society of victimization where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
In our society the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation from dating to trial by jury.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Girls are the future mothers of our society and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare no matter what happens to the world that's not equity it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money still less as is apt to happen when these are abandoned of race but of age.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker wife and mother.
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager especially and especially in the society we live in.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Death is always around the corner but often our society gives it inordinate help.
But now more and more its society is concerned with economy and finance.
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.