Quotes by Society In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so. Henry David Thoreau society nature feet Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle. James A. Baldwin society battle america Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right. James F. Cooper society government enemy There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation. James Florio society weapons gun Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate. James Fallows fate society people These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper society thousand knows Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. James Henry Breasted progress society important I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live. Henry David Thoreau design society past It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at. Henry David Thoreau society eye men I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely. Henry David Thoreau society wind men I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are. Henry David Thoreau society usual men I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports. Henry David Thoreau support society men The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity. James W. Prescott variables degrees society The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. James Russell Lowell ripe rotten society The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. James Russell Lowell generations society may What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. Jean-Baptiste Rousseau society trying men What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. Jean Baudrillard society america fiction The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence. Jean Baudrillard events society political The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Jean de la Bruyere individual society education Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. Jean-Jacques Rousseau human-nature society men «89101112131415161718»