Quotes of: Societies Keyword

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

Mo Ibrahim

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Minoru Yamasaki

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Octavio Paz

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

Raul Grijalva

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

Roy Jenkins

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Robert Reich

Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.

Srinivas Shenoy

Society will always do better where citizens have a belief in justice, honour and private morality. Where individuals are reduced to the satisfaction of personal appetites society will decline. The need to preserve society is at the very heart of con...

THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice, proportionality may break down: offences created by the elite few become offences against the entire ...

Entheogens, Society and Law

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention ...

Eric S. Raymond

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

The Society of the Spectacle

Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.

The Society of the Spectacle

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Eric Sevareid

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Gil A. Waters

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Emile Durkheim

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

Dan Aykroyd

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

David Harsanyi

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Marilyn vos Savant