Societies Quotes

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.