Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Samuel Johnson

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

It is our first duty to serve society.

Ronald Reagan

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

James A. Baldwin

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

George Will

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

Jean-Luc Godard

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

It's the one day when all of society is turned upside down.

Ernst Mayr

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Ernst Mayr

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Jean de la Bruyere

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Moliere

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Moliere

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Irv Kupcinet

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

H. L. Mencken

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H. L. Mencken

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Honore de Balzac

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

Honore de Balzac

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

James Callaghan

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Olusegun Obasanjo

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Malcolm Muggeridge

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

John Jay Chapman

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.