Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Young

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Gunnar Myrdal

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

Albert Brooks

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

Anais Nin

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

If we are going to have a sustainable, low-carbon society then we have to have low-carbon (supporting) citizens.

Ferdinand Marcos

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Benedict Wong

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

Brian Cox

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Benjamin Tucker

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Adlai Stevenson

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Barbara Amiel

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

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Li Keqiang

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.

Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

I see a society that's not valuing the truth.

Christopher Lasch

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

Ludwig von Mises

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

Ludwig von Mises

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

Ludwig von Mises

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Ludwig von Mises

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

Ludwig von Mises

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Elie Wiesel

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

John Jay Chapman

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

Society wants to see him cured. He wants to be cured. Society want to be safe. He wants to be safe.

Gerry Harvey

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.