Societies Quotes

629 Societies quotes by 480 unique authors

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… — James A. Michener
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not… — John Fowles
Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to… — Greg Graffin
Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures… — David Eddings
If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital — Bruce H. Lipton
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes… — Ralph Ellison
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term… — Jared Diamond
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental… — Jared Diamond
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking… — Don DeLillo
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. — Johnny Depp
Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, Iâ€™m glad thatâ€™s not me. Itâ€™s basically the… — Haruki Murakami
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,… — Mark Levin
Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers… — James A. Baldwin
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the â€œworkâ€ will be done by… — Malcolm Gladwell
Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to… — Dejan Stojanovic
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens… — Susan Sontag
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And… — Haruki Murakami

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