Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Ron Kind

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

Susanne Bier

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Shirley Chisholm

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Steven Levy

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Samantha Morton

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

Srikumar Rao

I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take n...

Srikumar Rao

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Theodor Adorno

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

Tim Holden

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

Terry Jones

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Tibor Kalman

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Tabare Vazquez

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

William Kingdon Clifford

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

William Graham Sumner

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Mitch Kapor

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft