Given Society Quotes
- A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
- In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless… — Erich Fromm
- If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to. — Joseph Campbell
- Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If… — Leo Tolstoy
- I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better. — Nancy Friday