Society Quotes · Page 117

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

— Anonymous

Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.

— George M. Whitesides

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

— Dorothea Dix

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

— Alan Paton

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what…

— Henry David Thoreau

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

— Diane Ladd

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

— Caitlin Flanagan

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

— Margo MacDonald

In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

You have troubles with violent indigenous movement around the continent. Here, we are putting more power in their hands and creating a…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't…

— Jackson Browne

I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is…

— Forest Whitaker

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may…

— John Strachan

The People's Response Act will create grant funding for the grassroots and community organizations that are doing the work to address housing,…

— Cori Bush

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the…

— Mitch Kapor

One of the biggest ways to level the playing field is to give all young people the same context on what opportunities…

— Sal Khan

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside…

— Henry David Thoreau

There's a shared pressure for women to be having it all, or striving to have it all. Have fun and be free,…

— Rachel Sennott

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise…

— Fanny Burney

“The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we…

— Desmond Tutu

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on…

— Jacques Ellul

“Unapofikia hatua ya kuwa na kila kitu katika maisha, unapokuwa umefanya kila kitu ulichotamani kufanya katika maisha, unakuwa na bahari nzima ndani…

— Enock Maregesi

“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their…

— Daniel Gilbert

I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this…

— Eric Reid

“You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through…

— Abhijit Naskar

I find it a very encouraging sign for a society if employers are bringing online education to their companies, helping employees gain…

— Andrew Ng

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

— Jessica Chastain

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

— David Schmidtz

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be…

— Paulo Coelho

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

— Grant Shapps

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

— James F. Cooper

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

— Ruth Benedict

I feel that it is a social responsibility for us who are better educated to give back some to the society in…

— Tan Cheng Bock

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

— John Rzeznik

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

— Herb Caen

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

— William of Conches

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

— Edward Kennedy

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

— M. Russell Ballard

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

— Sean Penn