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Society Quotes (page 37)

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public. Philip K. Dick
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of..."
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself. David Herbert Lawrence
If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. Henry David Thoreau
In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. Zbigniew Brzezinski
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him. And so, as I warned you, we are driven on to something more inward - driven... C. S. Lewis
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society? things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. E. B. White
Stephen King quote: "If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as..."
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. Stephen King
James Baldwin quote: "Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience..."
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. James Baldwin
Shusaku Endo quote: "A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society."
A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society. Shusaku Endo
This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people—because, surely, Wally was nice—would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer—and harder, if not impossible, to conceal. John Irving
Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!"Maybe I could blame it on society! Charles M. Schulz
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. Naomi Wolf
Russell Brand quote: "Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT."
Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT. Russell Brand
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship. Emma Goldman
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her. Andrea Dworkin

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