Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

Ludwig von Mises

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Ludwig von Mises

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

Ludwig von Mises

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Christopher Lasch

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

I see a society that's not valuing the truth.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

Albert Brooks

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

Anais Nin

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

If we are going to have a sustainable, low-carbon society then we have to have low-carbon (supporting) citizens.

J. B. Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Society wants to see him cured. He wants to be cured. Society want to be safe. He wants to be safe.

Gerry Harvey

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.

Li Keqiang

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.

Benjamin Tucker

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Adlai Stevenson

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Barbara Amiel

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

Gunnar Myrdal

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

Ferdinand Marcos

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Benedict Wong

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Kathleen Turner

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Karl Marx

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Irv Kupcinet

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

H. L. Mencken

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H. L. Mencken

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.