Quotes of: Democratic-society Keyword

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Hitch-22: A Memoir

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Ham on Rye

Count me in, Kat." He squeezed her tighter. "You should always count me in." - W. W. Hale the Fifth

Heist Society

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Heist Society

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

The Handmaid's Tale

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.

The Insulted and Humiliated

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

The Impact of Science on Society

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

Killosophy

...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Recollections on the French Revolution

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Rooftop Soliloquy

Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

- "What's wrong?" Scott asked. - "It's the way I treated Julie.Like she was the enemy. But she's not. She's the one I'm trying to save from the enemy.

The Society

...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Sketches and Travels, Etc.

Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Man On Fire

By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

The Magicians