Community Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Drama Ideal society Ideals Ideas Imagination Theatre
To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
“An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Human life isn't about ideals. It's a compromise, and occasionally it's boring. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image