Quotes of: Societies Keyword

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

Zaha Hadid

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existin...

Ivan Krastev

A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

Are Prisons Obsolete?

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