Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

George Ayittey

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

Georges Bernanos

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Gregory Corso

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Giorgio Napolitano

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

George Orwell

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Helen Garner

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

Howard Mumford Jones

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H. L. Mencken

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

Herbert Read

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

Ivana Milicevic

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Iain Duncan Smith

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Jo Brand

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Jackie Chan

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Jacques Delors

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

Jacques Ellul

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jill Lepore

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin