Society Quotes

"But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society."

Kim Dae Jung, South Korean Leader

Society, Pressure, Reform, Sense

3

"Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans."

Sue Kelly, American Politician

Society, Americans, Retirement, Security

3

"It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance."

Baldwin Spencer, Antiguan Statesman

Society, Time, Laws, World

2

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Society, Environment

2

"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."

David Guterson, American Author

Society, Cities, Melancholy, Tension

2

"Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state."

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstani Politician

Society, Progress, Spiritual, State

2

"None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

Society, Delay, Want

1

"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Society, Influence, Writer

1

"The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high."

Ken Kesey, American Author

Society, Lady

1

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist

Society, Cynic

1

"Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure."

Jared Diamond, American Author

Society, Coffee, Countries, Effort, Help

1

"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."

Djuna Barnes, American Novelist

Society, Day, May, Night, Skin

1

"We live in an anaesthetized society."

Tony Snow, American Journalist

Society,

1

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Society, Liberty, Safety

1

"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Society, Time, Genius, Courage

1

"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."

B. R. Ambedkar, Indian Politician

Society, Man

1

"Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Society, Women, Sight

1

"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."

Isaac Watts, English Politician

Society, Satan

1

"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."

Mitchell Kapor, American Businessman

Society, Anarchy, Network, Old

1

"We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world."

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian Statesman

Society, Vision, World

1

"It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society."

Ron Lewis, American Politician

Society, Financial, Security

1

"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."

Barbara Amiel, British Journalist

Society, Will

1

"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Society, Publicity

1

"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."

Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician

Society,

1

"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."

Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist

Society, Dogs, Ireland, Ships

1

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."

Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect

Society, Cities, Consideration, Help

1

"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

Society, Awards, Fact, Nothing

1

"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."

Jacques Delors, French Economist

Society, American

1

"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."

Lee R. Raymond, American Businessman

Society, Economy

1

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Society, People, Hell, Military

1

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Society, Independence, Nationality, Race

1

"The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Society, Camping

1

"I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble."

Charles Barkley, American Athlete

Society, Giving, Trouble

1

"Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension."

Herschel Walker, American Athlete

Society, Tension

1

"Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master."

Nicholson Baker, American Novelist

Society, First, Machines

1

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

John Maynard Keynes, English Economist

Society, Pursuit, Reward, Taxes

1

"I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified."

Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

Society, Murder, Punishment

1

"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians."

Sarah Zettel, American Author

Society,

1

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Society, Right

1

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

Society, Commerce, Honor

1

"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."

Jesse Eisenberg, American Actor

Society, Technology, Will

1

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Society, English, Talk

1

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Society, Hypocrisy, Nothing, Promise, Promises

1

"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation."

Thomas Bulfinch, American Writer

Society, Knowledge, Mythology, Possessions

1

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

Warren Buffett, American Businessman

Society, Business, Behavior, Reward, Schools

1

"A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you."

Elsa Maxwell, American Writer

Society, Giving, Nothing, Talking

1

"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Society, Cancer, Cure, Prejudice, Utopia

"A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Openness, Stagnation

"Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Society, Needs, Philanthropy, Public

"The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization."

Earl Browder, American Activist

Society, Development