Our Society famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
-- Aamir Khan -
Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?
-- Aharon Katzir -
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
-- Alan AtKisson -
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
-- Alan Watts -
What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
-- Alex Haley -
If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.
-- Alva Myrdal -
The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
-- Andrew Goodman -
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task,
-- Angela Merkel -
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
-- Anna Maria Chavez -
Activism has been very productive in our society.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.
-- Arianna Huffington -
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
-- Arlen Specter -
There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
-- Arlen Specter -
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
-- Atom Egoyan -
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
-- Barbara Deming -
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
-- Bell Hooks -
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.
-- Bill McKibben -
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
-- Bill Nye -
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
-- Billy Crudup -
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
-- Billy Graham -
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
-- Billy Graham -
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
-- Billy Graham -
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
-- Blanche Lincoln -
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
-- Bruce McDonald -
I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.
-- Bruno Monguzzi -
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.
-- C. Everett Koop -
On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.
-- Carl Sagan -
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
-- Carter Burwell -
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
-- Charles Edison -
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
-- Chili Davis -
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
-- Christiane Northrup -
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
-- Christopher Lasch -
I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.
-- Cindy Gallop -
In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.
-- Clarence John Laughlin -
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
-- Clay Shirky -
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.
-- Clifford Stoll -
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.
-- Dan Ariely -
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
-- Daniel Botkin -
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
-- David Attenborough -
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
-- David Simon -
I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns,
-- Ed Koch -
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
-- Edward Bond -
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
-- Edward Bond -
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick
-- Edward Hallett Carr -
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
-- Edwin Land -
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
-- Elisabeth Shue -
Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
-- Erica Jong -
I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.
-- Ezra Miller -
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
-- Faye Wattleton -
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
-- Gaylord Nelson -
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
-- George Lucas -
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
-- George Osborne -
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
-- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen -
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.
-- Germaine Greer -
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
-- Gilbert Highet -
The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
-- Gordon Brown -
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.
-- Graham Hancock -
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.
-- Graham Hancock -
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
-- Greg Mortenson -
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.
-- Gwee Li Sui -
It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.
-- Hank Green -
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.
-- Helen Prejean -
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
-- Helen Thomas -
The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.
-- Helen Thomas -
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.
-- Henri Nouwen -
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.
-- Henry Mintzberg -
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
-- Irving Kaufman -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
-- J. Edgar Hoover -
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
-- Jack Kemp -
Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,
-- Jackson Katz -
Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
-- Jacob K. Javits -
Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.
-- Janet Street-Porter -
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
-- Jared Diamond -
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
-- Jean Piaget -
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
-- Jean Vanier -
Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.
-- Jerry Vlasak -
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
-- Jim DeMint -
If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.
-- Jim DeMint -
The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.
-- Jim DeRogatis -
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
-- Jim Hightower -
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
-- Joan D. Vinge
