Quotes with society

Quotes 301 till 320 of 564.

  • Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Camille Paglia Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Enoch Powell Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bob Rae Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ajay Devgan Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Alexander Downer So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker 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
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ziggy Marley Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
    Ziggy Marley
    Jamaican reggae singer (1968 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Lin Yü-tang Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Oscar Wilde Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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