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Society Quotes

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known – almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid – and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism’s, Buddhism’s, Sufism’s rules.

– Huston Smith

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

– Henry Rollins

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

– Huston Smith

The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.

– Henrik Fisker

There’s only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

– Hazel Scott

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.

– Hans-Georg Gadamer

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

– Gustav Heinemann

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

– Henrik Ibsen

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.

– Hunter S. Thompson

I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.

– Guy Spier

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

– Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

– Harold Bloom

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.

– Henrik Ibsen

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

– Herbert Read

I’m under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

– Helen Mirren

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

– Haruki Murakami

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

– Herbert Read

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

– Greg Boyle

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

– Howard Mumford Jones

Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

– Harry Browne

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.

– Henry Anatole Grunwald

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

– Helen Thomas

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.

– Georg Henrik von Wright

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

– Howard Zinn

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

– Georges Bernanos

There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That’s what an editor does – looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

– Graydon Carter

Chinese society is organised around the family unit.

– Guo Guangchang

What is invaluable about Angela Davis’ work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

– Henry Giroux

Let’s face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they’re waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

– Greg Graffin

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone’s got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven’t.

– Hugo Weaving

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