Member Of Society Quotes

#1. Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#2. I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!

Bryce Dallas Howard

#3. There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

Timothy Carey

#4. Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion ... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

William Robertson Smith

#5. I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Bryan Batt

#6. Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.

Richelle Mead

#7. Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,

James Smithson

#8. Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Edward Burnett Tylor

#9. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but

William Graham Sumner

#10. You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Eugenie Scott

#11. I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

Man Ray

#12. It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

Cary Fukunaga

#13. Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

Rose George

#14. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

Owsley Stanley

#15. 2 days off: Typical weekend.
3 days off: Well rested.
4+ days off: Forget every single element of what it takes to be a functional member of society.

Unknown

#16. Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

George Washington

#17. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

Howard Mittelmark

#18. Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.

George MacDonald

#19. You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

Ken Livingstone

#20. Adam: "Perhaps you should get a real job and become a useful member of society."
Gordon: "Perhaps you should shove a pipe up your ass and die of lead poisoning.

Santino Hassell

#21. Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#22. I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Lauren Worsham

#23. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

#24. No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a "pyramid" in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a "body", where each member of society has a place, is respected and is important.

Jean Vanier

#26. She wasn't fit to be a member of society. Her mind was a running sewer. The raunchiest teenager didn't think about sex as much as she did.

Barbara Elsborg

#27. As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

Ai Weiwei

#28. There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

Frederick Lenz

#29. No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Samuel Johnson

#30. Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

Richard Whately

#31. A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

George Mikes

#32. Be advised, your objective is to raise a child from birth to adulthood so that she is a productive member of society. Minimum casualties.

Tonya Burrows

#33. Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.

Matt Finch

#34. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau

#35. A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

Michael Bennet

#36. Pretending to be a normal, functioning member of society is exhausting stuff.

Lia Riley

#37. In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

Mao Zedong

#38. Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Christina Stead

#39. What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Thomas Jefferson

#40. I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

Barry Ritholtz

#41. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Stephen King

#42. Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

Sheila Kamerman

#43. Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Jack Gleeson

#44. Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

Barbra Streisand

#45. Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Jerome K. Jerome

#46. Bursar?"
"Yes, Archchancellor?"
"You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?"
"Me? No, Archchancellor."
"Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

Terry Pratchett

#47. He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.

Chaim Potok

#48. If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

Robert Breault

#49. Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

Leland Stanford

#50. I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.

Phil Daniels

#51. 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

#52. I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

Victoria Principal

#53. The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.

Thomas Huxley

#54. Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Charles A. Beard

#55. In every society on earth the child is regarded as a member of his parents' groups.

Douglas C. Baynton

#56. The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

Raymond Loewy

#57. I'm an active lifetime member of the ... Louie, Louie Society and Proud Of It!

Timothy Pina

#58. I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

Lord Kelvin

#59. The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

Robert H. Jackson

#60. Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and play, and be a contributing member of a band or society. I have to take care of myself and my recovery, and then my family, and then my music.

Patty Schemel

#61. I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

#62. A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Thomas Jefferson

#63. Well the Kop's exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you've got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they're united and loyal.

Bill Shankly

#64. Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

#65. But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.

Leo Tolstoy

#66. I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

N. Scott Momaday

#67. Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

Fawn M. Brodie

#68. It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

Herman Kahn

#69. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage ... Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe ...

James Madison

#70. I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

Nathan Fillion

#71. The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

Johan Huizinga

#72. If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

Stephen King

#73. As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

B. Barmanbek

#74. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery ... The great thing about it is equality ... Slaves are bound to be equal.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#76. To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Man Ray

#77. I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Cindy Gallop

#78. Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

Seth Lloyd