Top 49 Condition Of Society Quotes
#1. History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ...
Gladys Taber
#2. The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.
Sylvia Pankhurst
#4. Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.
Denise Levertov
#5. The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Ernest Gaines
#6. Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.
James F. Cooper
#7. In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
Leland Stanford
#8. Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.
Hilaire Belloc
#9. The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
Lord Acton
#10. The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.
Pope Francis
#11. The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.
Bell Hooks
#12. Toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
Dorothee Solle
#13. The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#14. Because in the end, we die. It's like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: 'in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.
Zack Love
#15. I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
Vinton Cerf
#16. An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#17. In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
Michael Novak
#18. To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don't study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition.
Debasish Mridha
#19. The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.
Samuel Smiles
#20. The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#21. If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Harriet Martineau
#22. Advancement - improvement in condition - is the order of things in a society of equals.
Abraham Lincoln
#23. During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.
Rajneesh
#24. Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.
Solomon E. Asch
#25. Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
Jinato Hu
#26. Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
Benjamin Disraeli
#27. In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
Robert Kennedy
#28. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)
Muse
#29. There are no bystanders in life [ ... ] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
Sonia Sotomayor
#30. The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#31. For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.
Frederick Lenz
#32. 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
#33. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.
Russell Brand
#34. Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
Wei Jingsheng
#35. When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
#36. The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
Zygmunt Bauman
#37. In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
Alexander Berkman
#38. Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal agony represent a maddening part of being human. A person can maintain personal dignity by exercising restraint, remaining true to their conscience, and preserving under difficult conditions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#39. People may make fun of me because I'm wearing something odd, but it's still good to be alive.
Soseki Natsume
#40. Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.
Ross Lovegrove
#41. We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
Walter Scott
#42. Liberty'.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#43. Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.
Nancy Mairs
#44. When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum ... for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.
Jeremy Griffith
#45. The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.
Tiffany Madison
#46. If it is said men oppress women, the husband reacts indigntantly; he feels oppressed: he is; but in fact, it is the masculine code, the society developed by males and in their interest, that has defined the feminine condition in a form that is now for both sexes a source of distress.
Simone De Beauvoir
#47. You and I live at a moment of history that is simultaneously terrible and wonderful. Terrible because of the condition of the society in which we are destined to live out our lives. Wonderful because of the unprecedented opportunities to make a difference in the destiny of a nation and the world.
Philip Lancaster
#48. You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.
Rem Koolhaas
#49. Magical activity is a kind of dynamo supplying the mechanisms of practical life with the emotional current that drives it. Hence, magic is a necessity of every sort and condition of man, and is actually found in every healthy society.
Herbert Read
