Indifferent Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

— Virginia Postrel

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

— Ludwig von Mises

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than…

— Martha Beck

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with…

— Walter Crane

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

— Michel Faber

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

— Edward R. Murrow

“When the maker's (or fixer's) activity is immediately situated within a community of use, it can be enlivened by this kind of direct perception.…

— Anonymous