Quotes of: Democratic-society Keyword

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucault

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

Marya Mannes

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Timothy Radcliffe

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

David Whyte

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Barry O'Farrell

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

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

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

Tim Hardaway

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

Mitt Romney

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Ajay Devgan

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

Aimee Mullins

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Andrew Young

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

Barbara Amiel

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

Barbara Bush

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Bill Moyers

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Benjamin Netanyahu