Quotes of: Societies Keyword

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Don DeLillo

One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?

Donna Lynn Hope

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.

Debasish Mridha

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live forever as a treasure.

Debasish Mridha

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Louis Althusser

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Brad Holland

John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.

Dead Poets Society

Neil: If I don't ask him, at least I won't be disobeying him.

Dead Poets Society

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

LL Cool J

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucault

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

Marya Mannes

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Timothy Radcliffe

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

David Whyte

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Barry O'Farrell

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg