The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society – more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company. – Barry Lam
It seems to me that we’re in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society. – Alexander McCall Smith
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. – B. R. Ambedkar
It’s almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, ‘I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.’ – Alain de Botton
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general. – Bill Dedman
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. – Betty Friedan
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. – Albert Einstein
Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we’ve had with money as a society – having money, talking about money – has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there’s nothing wrong about giving it back. – Arpad Busson
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society. – Blanche Lincoln
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. – B. F. Skinner
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. – Albert J. Nock
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people – be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes. – Anita Borg
There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives? – Alaya Dawn Johnson
We don’t want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery. – Allan Houston
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? – Ana Castillo
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society – the people who start to get new ideas out. – Allan Savory
I don’t see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don’t put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where ‘My Dinner with Andre’ made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do ‘Meatballs.’ – Albert Brooks
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker
Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser – I dress as a woman. It’s not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I’m also a drag queen and a performer – there are many levels there. – Alexis Arquette
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. – Aneurin Bevan
Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation… you don’t have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses. – Andrew Vachss
