Quotes of: Democratic-society Keyword

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

Gods on the Mountain

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

Help Is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions: Collection of Basic Instructions v. 1

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

A brick could be affixed to each end of an axle, for an example of transportation in a pre-wheel society.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A brick could be hidden in the dirt, for future archaeologists to dig up and declare, “Wow! This was one advanced society.” 

Brick and Blanket

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

Big Machine

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Banal Nationalism

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Muhammad Yunus

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Julian Barnes

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

Malcolm Mclaren