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• How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Society

  Tags in True, Measure

• Society mends its wounds. And that’s invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

  Charlton Heston

  Topics in Society

  Tags in True, Tragedies

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

  Roland Barthes

  Topics in Society

• I’m just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won’t take me because he knows I don’t want to go.

  Pia Zadora

  Topics in Society

  Tags in White House, Invited

• Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

  Roddy Doyle

  Topics in Humanity, Society

  Tags in World

• The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Believe

• Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Lives

• I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you’re mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Topics in Mistake, Society

• One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Topics in Society

• Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we’re not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Believe, Human

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

  Robyn Rihanna Fenty

  Topics in Society

• The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

  Charles Sturt

  Topics in Future, Society

  Tags in Means, Condition

• There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

  Robertson Davies

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Stupidity

• Over all, many of society’s values are a cesspool.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Many

• All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It’s called competition. And competition is antagonism.

  Edward Bond

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Competition, Antagonism

• Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

  Edward Bond

  Topics in Religion, Society

• In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Society

• The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Society

• As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

  Robert Teeter

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Lives

• The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

  Charles Hodge

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Government, State