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Society Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices…
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
- In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice'…
- No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
- We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it…
- Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just…
- Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and…
- Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as…
- Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords…
- Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is…
- Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
- The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in…
- Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
- The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
- The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in…
- It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's…
- Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a…
- One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently…
- People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three…
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