A Quotes
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“A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.”
“A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.”
Source: Up from Liberalism
“A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.”
“A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.”
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.”
Source: The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
“A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.”
“A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“A society like the Italian, the very disorder of which renders the action of the State useless and ridiculous, is not without its charm and helps us to grasp this political truth: the principal task of the State today is to justify its own existence. To do so, it has to annihilate society's capacity to survive by itself. Surreptitiously undermining all forms of spontaneous regulation, deregulating, desocializing, breaking down the traditional mechanisms of bodies and antibodies, in order to substitute its artificial mechanisms - such is the strategy of a State locked in a subtle struggle with society - exactly like medicine, which lives off the destruction of natural defences and their replacement by artificial ones.
In Rome, Niccolini manages to counter the obsessive fear of terrorism with a cultural revival. To the Romans who no longer dare go out in the evenings he offers festivals, performances, poetry galas. He brings culture down into the street. He combats the terrorist festival with the cultural, advertising festival. He will be criticized for wasteful expenditure, but the only way to fight terrorism is not to create 'solid' institutions, but to put upon the stage a culture that is as sacrificial, eccentric, and ephemeral as the terrorist acts themselves. One festival against the other. If terrorism is a sort of murderous advertising campaign which keeps our imagination on tenterhooks, it can be countered only by a piece of even more effective advertising.”
Source: Cool memories
“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”
Source: Minority Report
“A society manufactures the heroes it requires.”
“A society matures when rights and responsibilities grow together.”
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
“A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!”
“A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.”
Source: Montauk
“A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.”
“A society oblivious to moderation, in time causes its own downfall.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.”
“A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.”
“A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.”
Source: Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty
“A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.”
Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
“A society punishing a boy for stealing because he is otherwise unable to feed himself, would be hypocritical if not also blaming the instrument for not being tuned.”
“A society, regardless of the number of people included, is only as big as the ideas it will accommodate.”
“A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!”
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
“A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.”
“A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.”
“A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.”
“A society that begins by banning words will end by banning books, and ideas themselves.”
Source: Behind the Black Mask: My Time as an Antifa Activist
“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.”
“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)”
“A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.”
“A society that cultivates perpetual threat narratives often sows the seeds for actual violence.”
Source: THE LIFE-SAVING MANIFESTO: Wake Up or Be Owned: A Revolutionary Call to Break Free From Manufactured Realities and Reclaim Your Sovereign Mind
“A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.”
“A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.”
Source: The Regeneration Trilogy
“A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.”
“A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.”
“A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.”
“A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.”
“A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“A society that doesn't recognize and respect the girl power, grows with half pace and half power.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A society that doesn't value her history abuses the privileges and is doomed to the it.”
“A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.”
Source: The Leto bundle
“A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.”
“A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.”
“A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.”