Society Fails Quotes

#1. Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Thomas Merton

#2. Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

Tom Peters

#3. Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand

Ole H.

#4. View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

J. Willard Marriott

#5. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau

#6. We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#7. Here's a tip: if even maggots think it's a bad idea, it is a really bad idea.

Kathy Benjamin

#8. A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

Duop Chak Wuol

#9. We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

David Hume

#10. The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Albert J. Nock

#11. He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Living for oneself, respecting our being is one of the most important code of anybody's existence and a person who fails to justify his being fails to justify the society as well..

Tripta Arora

#13. The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society.
A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people.

Ellen J. Barrier

#15. The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

Dan B. Allender

#16. I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

Holly Marie Combs

#17. In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#18. Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Aberjhani

#19. I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

Harold Nicholas

#20. Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.

Gary Frank

#21. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Gayle Forman

#22. There is a prophecy, Dovepaw," he began. "There

Erin Hunter

#23. Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

David Christian

#24. The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Alain De Botton

#25. I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Walter Savage Landor

#26. The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

Linda Ronstadt

#27. A cloud has been collecting for 1500 years, yet you are condemning the thunderclap. Its wrath will be absolved by the future. Its result is a better world; and a caress for the human race issues from its most terrible blows. The human race has been chastised, but it has moved onward.

Victor Hugo

#28. There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

David Antin

#29. A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

Michael Meade

#30. Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#31. People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

Frances Hesselbein

#32. HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet