Dead Society Quotes

#1. The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#2. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#3. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).

Henry David Thoreau

#4. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Tom Schulman

#6. When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

K.d. Lang

#7. When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Russell Tovey

#8. Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Edmund Burke

#9. Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.

Scott Adams

#10. Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Pervez Musharraf

#11. Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Robin Williams

#13. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#14. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

Gregory Benford

#16. People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.

Donna Lynn Hope

#17. Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

Wayne Dyer

#18. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Robin Williams

#19. There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

Carol Morgan

#20. If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

Andy Couturier

#21. I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Robin Williams

#22. When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

Tom Schulman

#23. will you please explain how you can cry for a dead dog yet belong to a society of fanatics that urges death on human beings who happen to be Jews? Explain to me the logic of it.

Bernard Malamud

#24. A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth
either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard

#25. Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the evolving system who will speak for the yet unborn, for the future.

Fareed Zakaria

#26. It doesn't matter if you're alive or dead. It matters what was said to leave an everlasting impression on society.

Jay G Rich

#27. An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead...

William Styron

#28. Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Mike Schmidt

#29. The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

David Walton

#30. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#31. Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.

Alex Grecian

#32. There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

William S. Burroughs

#33. There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#34. Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.

Isaac Asimov

#35. Society advances further on the backs of the living than it does on the backs of its dead.

Allan McLeod

#36. Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly letting go of the rigid belief that the natural and inevitable culmination of every society is the Western model.

Lily King

#37. Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

Marie Corelli

#38. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.

Bauvard

#39. Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Robin Williams

#40. A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

Benjamin Franklin

#41. Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#42. The dead hand of society's inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.

Peter F. Hamilton

#43. Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Henry Adams

#44. The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

Thom Yorke

#45. You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead.

Ferran Adria

#46. It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism.

Aime Cesaire

#47. Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Marshall McLuhan

#48. We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Robin Williams

#49. Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Tom Schulman

#50. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Jake M. Johnson

#51. What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

Russell Brand

#52. Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

Naguib Sawiris

#53. Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Tom Schulman

#54. Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

Suzanne La Follette

#55. Who, despite the pretensions of this society,
can sleep in it in peace when they know that it derives its mediocre pleasures from the work of millions of
dead souls?

Albert Camus

#56. It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

Doris Lessing

#57. Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Robin Williams

#58. Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead. But this is the secret of Goethe's Stirb und werde, "Die and come to life." For the job of compassion in a sick society only the dead need apply.

Alan W. Watts

#59. Oh captain my captain

Walt Whitman

#60. Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Arthur Balfour

#61. In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#62. In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Irv Kupcinet

#64. The experience on that movie ( Dead Poets Society ) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

#65. There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

William Wordsworth

#66. TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation ...

Ann Landers

#67. Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

Finley Peter Dunne

#68. Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.

Edmund Burke

#69. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Mark Fisher

#70. Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

Roger Scruton

#71. The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton

#72. The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.

William E. Kennard

#73. Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#74. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Robin Williams