Quotes of: Democratic-society Keyword

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Elsa Maxwell

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

Ernest Mandel

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Eugene McCarthy

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Frances O'Grady

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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