952 private quotes tagged society

“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.” — J. B. Priestley

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“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!” — Stephen Covey

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“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.” — John Stuart Mill

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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.” — Lawrence G. Lovasik

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“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?” — Terry Pratchett

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“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” — Rollo May

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“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” — John Locke

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“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” — Anwar Sadat

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“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” — Pope John Paul II

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“That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.” — Jeff Bridges

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“I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.” — Ednita Nazario

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“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” — Pope John XXIII

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“Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.” — Kent Conrad

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“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.” — Salvador Dali

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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” — Thomas Browne

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“In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.” — John Woolman

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“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.” — Rainn Wilson

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“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.” — Mark Skousen

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“I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.” — Hilary Swank

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“When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.” — John Boyd Orr

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