“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”
Society is the agreement we all live under without ever signing a contract. These quotes examine culture, community, inequality, progress, and the ongoing negotiation between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
“Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.”
“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”
“Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.”
“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
“If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.”
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.”
“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”
“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
“Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.”
“We need proof in our society.”
“In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.”
“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”
“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.”
“The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?”
“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”