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Pervez Musharraf on society
Author: Pervez Musharraf“Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.” -Pervez Musharraf
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Salman Rushdie on society
Author: Salman Rushdie“The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.” -Salman…
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Roger Ebert on society
Author: Roger Ebert“We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.” -Roger Ebert
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V. S. Naipaul on society
Author: V. S. Naipaul“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.” -V. S. Naipaul
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John Gilmore on society
Author: John Gilmore“How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.” -John Gilmore
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Christina Hoff Sommers on society
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers“Boy’s natural play is rough and tumble play, it’s the universal play of little boys. And it’s very different from aggression. And we are a society that’s failing to understand the distinction.” -Christina Hoff Sommers
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Lech Walesa on society
Author: Lech Walesa“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.” -Lech Walesa
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Hugh Hefner on society
Author: Hugh Hefner“If you let society and your peers define who you are, you’re the less for it.” -Hugh Hefner
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James Buchan on society
Author: James Buchan“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.” -James Buchan
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Dean Koontz on society
Author: Dean Koontz“What we do as a society is seek simple answers.” -Dean Koontz
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Sally Ride on society
Author: Sally Ride“For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.” -Sally Ride
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John Boyd Orr on society
Author: John Boyd Orr“When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.” -John Boyd Orr
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Henry Adams on society
Author: Henry Adams“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.” -Henry Adams
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Jo Brand on society
Author: Jo Brand“There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it’s something to do with the social structure of society.” -Jo Brand
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Phil McGraw on society
Author: Phil McGraw“The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.” -Phil McGraw
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Thomas Mann on society
Author: Thomas Mann“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.” -Thomas Mann
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Leon Trotsky on society
Author: Leon Trotsky“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.” -Leon Trotsky
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Lauryn Hill on society
Author: Lauryn Hill“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.” -Lauryn Hill
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Howard Cosell on society
Author: Howard Cosell“The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.” -Howard Cosell
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David Mamet on society
Author: David Mamet“It’s upsetting to be a man in our society.” -David Mamet
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Ibrahim Babangida on society
Author: Ibrahim Babangida“At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.” -Ibrahim Babangida
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Michel Foucault on society
Author: Michel Foucault“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.” -Michel Foucault
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Christopher Lasch on society
Author: Christopher Lasch“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God’s gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God’s gift to the collective.” -Christopher Lasch
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George McGovern on society
Author: George McGovern“I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.” -George McGovern