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Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
Henry Sedgwick
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Roland Barthes
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
George William Russell
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.
John Dewey, John Dewey and Ameri
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
George Steiner
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
Ian MacKaye
I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.
David Miliband
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.additional note: According to Hugh Sidey, in A Very Personal Presidency (1968), the slogan,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Public Papers
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Rand Paul
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Mason Cooley
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus
