Society's Quotes
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And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the houshold of the Prophet (saww)) for the security of society's system, and our Im?mat as a safety from seggregation and disunity.
fatimah— Ayan al-Sh?‘ah, vol.1, p.316
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
potter stewart— Dissenting, United States v. Ginzburg, 383 U.S. 463 (1965)
Ayear passed; a year of art and dissipationone part art, two parts dissipation.We mounted and descended at pleasure the rounds of society's ladder.
George Moore— 1870 Confessions of aYoung Man (published1888).
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,Unfriendly to society's chief joys,Thy worst effect is banishing for hoursThe sex whose presence civilizes ours.
william cowper— Line 251.
Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.
Anatol Rapoport— Anatol Rapoport, as quoted in: Gerald McKnight (1973) Computer crime, p. 203
(on the current state of satire) Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now--to quote myself at my most pretentious--is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste. For example, the freedom (hooray!) to say almost anything you want on television about society's problems has been co-opted (alas!) by the freedom to talk instead about flatulence, orgasms, genitalia, masturbation, etc., etc., and to replace real comment with pop-culture references and so-called "adult" language. Irreverence is easy--what's hard is wit.
tom lehrer— Rhino Records online chat, June 17th, 1997.
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.
herbert marcuse— p. x (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.
albert jay nock— p. 51 (Our Enemy, the State (1935))
“The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.”
— Eugene Odum (1993) Ecology and our endangered life-support systems. p.143
From society's standpoint, modern science and technology appears Janus-faced:;: It has given us wealth in one sense, and poverty in another; it has harnessed nature to man's basic needs in ways and to extents undreamed - of only a few decades ago, but it has fostered a continuingly lowered "quality of life".
— p. 7 (Organizational cybernetics and human values (1969))
The sponsor may be viewed as a potentate with a strong influence over currents of thought in our society, exercised mainly through television [...] It has tended to displace or overwhelm other influences such as newspapers, school, church, grandpa, grandma. It has become the definer and transmitter of society's values.
— Erik Barnouw, The Sponsor: Notes On a Modern Potentate (Oxford University Press, 1978), page 74-75, ISBN 0-19-502614-4
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
william cowper— William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 251.
And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the houshold of the Prophet (saww)) for the security of society's system, and our Im?mat as a safety from seggregation and disunity.
— Ayan al-Sh?‘ah, vol.1, p.316
I share the confidence of those who feel that America is working to care for its unwanted as well as wanted children, protecting particularly those who cannot protect themselves. I also share the opinions of those who do not accept abortion as a response to our society's problems -- an inadequate welfare system, unsatisfactory job training programs, and insufficient financial support for all its citizens.
— Edward “Ted” Kennedy, U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate, now in favor of legalized abortion, in a letter to a constituent (August 3, 1971)[27][28][29] [30].
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
potter stewart— Dissenting, United States v. Ginzburg (1965)
