Society Quotes - Page 20

• Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

  John Roberts

  Hints, Facts

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• I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Design, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Air, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.137

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• As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Dog, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.105, Gibbs Smith

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• It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Daggers

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wind, Sowing

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.367, Penguin

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• I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Usual, Vulgar

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Support, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Russia, Heaven, Earth

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• So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody.

  Bill Maher

  War, Should Have, Drug

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

  Demetri Martin

  Able, Wonder, Ifs

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2012

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• As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Ideas, Missing

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• I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

  Albert Brooks

  Littles, Areas, Felt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

  Doug Stanhope

  Long, Goal, Unemployment

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• Coward is the most misused word in our society.

  Doug Stanhope

  Coward, Misused Words, Our Society

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

  Dov Davidoff

  Together, Woven, Fabric

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 13, 2012

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• The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

  Ernest Jones

  Men, Outrun, Secured

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Unnecessary War

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments.

  John Adams

  Fear, Patriotic, Government

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

  John Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76

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• Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Ocean, Independent, Men

  "Book Of Happiness". Book by Jagdish Gupta, 2013.

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Men, Different, Servant

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Class, Perfect

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