Quotes of: Western-society Keyword

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

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ivan Illich

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James A. Baldwin

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

Julie Burchill

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Judi Dench

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

John T. Flynn

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Jeff Hawkins

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Joyce Meyer

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Jens Stoltenberg

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Keith Miller

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.

LZ Granderson