Quotes of: Societies Keyword

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Andrej Pejic

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Andrew Young

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

Bernhard Goetz

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Benjamin Tucker

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Christopher Lasch

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

Dana Plato

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

David Ricardo

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edward Carpenter

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Eliot Spitzer

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Felix Adler

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Friedrich Schiller

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Hugh Hefner