Society Quotes - Page 22

• The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

  John Lennon

  Mean, People, Drug

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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Work, Safety

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.315, Fordham Univ Press

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Witty, Nice

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• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Integrity

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• We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Anarchy, Dignity

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• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem

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• We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Carpe Diem, Changing Environment

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• The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

  John Stuart Mill

  Independence, Mind, Body

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Change, Culture, Conservative

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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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

  Love, Family, Children

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Blessing, Boredom, Progress

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• I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Government, Purpose

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Political, Healthy, Democracy

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• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Government, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Trying, Constructs

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Pride

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.196, NYU Press

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• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  Bayard Rustin

  Acknowledge You, Dignity, Human Rights

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

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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

  Family, Justice, Diversity

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girly, Morning, Motivation

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• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Life, Peace

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Men, Earth

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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