Societies Quotes

629 Societies quotes by 480 unique authors

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a… — Thomas Szasz
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate… — Paul Theroux
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have… — Lewis Thomas
I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to… — Yani Tseng
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. — Desmond Tutu
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement. — Neale Donald Walsch
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest,… — Ai Weiwei
I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like,… — Joss Whedon
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be… — George Whitefield
It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that… — Naomi Wolf
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are… — Muhammad Yunus
As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not… — Helen Fisher
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it. — Helen Fisher
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. — Helen Fisher
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher
Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens… — Evgeny Morozov
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. — Geoff Mulgan
Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. — Geoff Mulgan
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing… — Marcel Duchamp
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's… — Salman Rushdie
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on… — Aung San Suu Kyi
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example,… — Alexander Hamilton
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. — Anais Nin

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