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Society Quotes by William James
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely…
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
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