Society Quotes - Page 28

• It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

  Ted Simon

  Loyalty, People, Quality

  7 Copy quote

• We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, World

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

  Potter Stewart

  Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books

  "United States v. Ginzburg, 383 U.S. 463". Dissenting opinion, 1965.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Government, Worthwhile Things, Years

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Government, Principles

  17 Copy quote

• [F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Believe, Men, People

  13 Copy quote

• [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

  Fisher Ames

  Book, School, Long

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.406, Burt Franklin

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Fun, Stupid, Creating

  23 Copy quote

• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Book, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.134, 谷月社

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

  Lester Roloff

  Running, Crazy, Usa

  79 Copy quote

• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Men, Atheism

  'Walden' (1854) 'The Village'

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Communication, Law

  Beecher, Henry Ward (1882). “Plymouth Pulpit: Semi-monthly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Politics, Gravel, Guts

  20 Copy quote

• The grand paradox of our society is this:
  we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men, Paradox, Capacity

  4 Copy quote

• The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.

  Wil Shipley

  Mistake, Men, Community

  31 Copy quote

• An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

  Mark Van Doren

  Insecure, Errors, Ideas

  Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

  Antonio Gramsci

  School, Media, Order

  368 Copy quote

• No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.

  Ashoka

  People, Stronger, Easier

  436 Copy quote

• Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Bears, Neighbor

  10 Copy quote

• The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

  Boman Irani

  Might, Firsts, Steps

  15 Copy quote

• There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Strong, Data, Long

  5 Copy quote

• People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

  Robert Greene

  People, Complicated, Mask

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Degradation, Decay

  7 Copy quote

• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Criminals

  17 Copy quote