Quotes of: Societies Keyword

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Denis Villeneuve

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Donald E. Westlake

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Edwin Louis Cole

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Eric Schlosser

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Elie Wiesel

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Felix Adler

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Friedrich Schiller

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Frans de Waal

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Gary Hamel

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Georg Henrik von Wright

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Gao Xingjian

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Halle Berry

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Herta Muller

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Read

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Iain Duncan Smith

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Jacob Bronowski

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Jeb Bush