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Society Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
- The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
- We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.
- Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
- One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,…
- There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
- Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
- The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will…
- Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the…
- Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of…
- A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
- I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand…
- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi