Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Herbert Read

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

Jacques Ellul

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

Len Wiseman

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

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

Russell Simmons

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Marcel Proust

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

Mona Simpson

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Wilhelm Reich

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

F. Sionil Jose

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

Gordon Lightfoot

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Herbert Spencer

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

James Fenton

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

Louis Sachar

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Tipper Gore

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Peter Singer