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Society & Civilization Quotes (3113 Quotes)
Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins wrists rather than a stolen ring around his girlfriends finger. Hopkins is a felon, a thief and a cad.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
The public library system of America is one of the great treasures of this country, and reading is the entry way to everything -- to personal fulfillment as well as to the future dynamism of our whole society, ... I think Laura Bush's leadership in this and her role model (status) as a professional librarian and teacher and as the host of this festival is just very, very exciting.
As Russian society is becoming increasingly consolidated and as its economy grows, forces are emerging which, by mere inertia, view our country as an enemy... (But) we will not allow anyone to provoke us to adopt primitive anti-Western policies,
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the ''dragon,'' in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.
You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
We have good volunteers. Without the volunteers, the society wouldn't be what it is today.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.
There are some problems between the races in America, and it stretches much beyond policecommunity relations. I think it's something that is encompassed by all the different aspects of society right now,
Finally this electoral story is over. After the court ruling, Italians have no further doubts about our victory. Now we are working for a strong government and to resolve the problems of Italian society.
This is a great bike and a great cause, ... I'm proud to be the first bidder and get this auction started. Hopefully I can get other race fans excited about the custom chopper and raise funding for the important relief efforts being provided by The Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
As a player, I was a quick-fix type guy, ... I wanted it now. The society we live in wants everything now. We're results-oriented. Well, I've come to understand that results are just that. And sometimes they come in their own time.
He spoke in favor of Oslo. Who speaks in favor of Oslo anymore ... If he goes on with these types of economic policy and foreign policy, I don't think he will draw the middle of Israeli society.
It is typical and completely appropriate. It's an insurance policy that more than 90 percent of corporate America has in place. Given the fact that we live in a litigious society, it's something that is necessary.
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
They've already paid their debts to society, and then they're hit over the head again.
My husband and I did what we could after Katrina. We donated to the Red Cross and the Humane Society. But I kept thinking about the birds. It kept me awake at night, wondering how I could help them.
The fundamental question is not do you support teachers or are you angry at the government The primary question we all need to answer is 'Do we believe that the foundation of our civil society is respect for the rule of law'
It's just another misguided publicity stunt by PETA to create a vegan society. KFC is very committed to the humane treatment of chickens and we're very proud of our industry leading animal welfare guidelines.
I think the response to Katrina on one level the governmental level only reinforced our inability to come together to solve problems we see in society. What it did show is that the American public remained compassionate and generous people.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties perception, invention, improvisation.
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.
We live in an anaesthetized society.
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.
It's just not, in my opinion, fair competition. In this free world and capitalist society, you can't get something you're willing to pay for.
I prefer what I remember to what is going on today. I don't like what I see today, the irresponsibility, the lack of moral values, permissiveness, lack of respect for the elderly, irresponsibility toward society. It depresses me.
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
In order to be recognized as good corporate citizen in the US, we have been fulfilling our responsibility to society, to the public at large. The trade issues between the US and Japan are not bound to become heated as we saw in the past. But we think we must make efforts to fulfill the local activities. We will remain very vigilant watching social and economic move in US in that regard.
We have to stick very much to these values. If not, we are accepting fear in this society.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
There is a low-level anxiety pervading U. S. society. It's different from anything we've seen in the past.
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
Society, a jury, whomever, has to decide at some point whether he's salvageable. Or is he so bad we're going to use a cell for the next 60 years
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.