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Society Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society,…
- The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of…
- Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the…
- There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that…
- If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.
- If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
- The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
- The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead,…
- Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to…
- The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available…
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