Quotes about Society, page 2

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about society

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about society

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about society

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Quote by Kathy Acker about society

However, our society thinks that success means having a car and a lot of money and looking as white as you can or as American as you can. Or if you're white, looking as exotic as you can. We don't have any idea that it's about our hearts and our...

Quote by Erykah Badu about society

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Quote by Lord Acton about society

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about society

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about society

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Quote by John Adams about society

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Quote by John Adams about society

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Quote by John Adams about society

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about society

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about society

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Quote by Aristotel about society

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about society

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Quote by Albert Camus about society

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Quote by Albert Camus about society

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and nobody in his right mind will believe this today.

Quote by Albert Camus about society