Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Ludwig von Mises

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

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.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Li Keqiang

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Brian Cox

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Benjamin Tucker

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

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.

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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