British history Quote by A. N. Wilson

Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well…

— Kenneth Rexroth

“It is impossible to determine precisely how many Victorians were dependent on the drug, but since millions used it on a daily basis, the…

— David Morrell

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

— Connie Willis

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

— Basil Hume

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film…

— Atom Egoyan

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

— Ruth Benedict

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only…

— David Bohm

“Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing history but…

— Robert Penn Warren

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual…

— Tony Blair

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…

— Ruth Benedict

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell