Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Georg Henrik von Wright

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Gao Xingjian

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Halle Berry

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Herta Muller

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Read

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Iain Duncan Smith

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Jacob Bronowski

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Jeb Bush

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

Juan Cole

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Jack Gleeson

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Jack Kemp

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

John Key

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Johann Most

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Jessica Savitch

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Jonathan Sacks

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

Joni Eareckson Tada

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin