What Society Thinks Quotes

#1. Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.

Tiffany Madison

#2. Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Neil Patrick Harris

#3. What our lives looked like on the surface may be some people's idea of perfect.But beneath the surface is where the important stuff is. We all need to be on the same page - do we want to adhere to what society thinks is perfect? Or do we want what we think is perfect?

Kelly Jamieson

#4. If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Madonna

#5. He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.

Ruth Ozeki

#6. [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

Frantz Fanon

#7. We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

Marge Piercy

#8. The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

Jacques Delors

#9. Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#10. Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#11. 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

#12. A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

George Will

#13. To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Marina Abramovic

#14. Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

Robin S. Sharma

#16. Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

Gore Vidal

#17. The complaint of the depressive individual, "Nothing is possible," can only occur in a society that thinks, "Nothing is impossible.

Byung-Chul Han

#18. He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

#19. In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women ... why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?

Elizabeth Wordsworth

#20. No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Lydia Rodriguez-Clement

#21. The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

Terry Pratchett

#22. When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#23. Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#24. I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Todd Gitlin

#25. No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Robert Bork

#26. In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Michael Crichton

#27. Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang

#28. Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

George Eliot

#29. I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

Lynn Coady

#30. I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little!

Frederick Lenz

#31. There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

Neil MacGregor

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

N.H. Kleinbaum

#33. The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

Russell Kirk

#34. Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

Daniel Pennac

#35. Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.

Steven Weber

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

Tom Schulman

#37. the worldly church (accommodationist) and the isolated church (exclusivist). "[The worldly church] thinks of itself as responsible to society for God rather than to God for society";226 the isolated church "seeks to respond to God but does so only for itself.

Atsuyoshi Fujiwara

#38. If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#39. Back on the beach we dry off under a shady tree. I feel Olly's eyes on me when he thinks I'm not noticing, but we are a mutual admiration society - I'm secretly ogling him, too.

Nicola Yoon

#40. Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

Steven Magee

#41. Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,
All just supply, and all relation;
Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,
For every man alone thinks he hath got
To be a phoenix, and that then can be
None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

John Donne

#42. Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there ... but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

Tony Robbins

#43. The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

Andrew Vachss

#44. It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks.

Siobhan Vivian

#45. Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Corinne Maier

#46. The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and (most of all) religious revival; the hushed-up society where everyone is afraid to say what he thinks is on the brink of violence and collapse.

Greg Forster

#47. I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

H. G. Bissinger

#48. The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

Robert Thurman

#49. America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach