Quotes about Great Society

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. Votes: 4

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success. Votes: 4

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Votes: 4

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. Votes: 4

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer. Votes: 4

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity. Votes: 4

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. Votes: 4

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back. Votes: 4

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. Votes: 3

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. Votes: 3

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. Votes: 3

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. Votes: 3

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. Votes: 3

I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One] Votes: 3

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population. Votes: 3

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor. Votes: 3

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. Votes: 3

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents. Votes: 3

The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help. Votes: 3

In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life. Votes: 3

Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter. Votes: 3

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor. Votes: 3

A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal. Votes: 3

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. Votes: 3

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. Votes: 2

Habit is the great flywheel of society. Votes: 0

The great hope of society is in individual character Votes: 0

The great hope of society is in individual character. Votes: 0

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society. Votes: 0

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. Votes: 0

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little. Votes: 0

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music. Votes: 0

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. Votes: 0

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. Votes: 0

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. Votes: 0

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Votes: 0

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. Votes: 0

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps Votes: 0

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. Votes: 0

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society. Votes: 0

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: Votes: 0

In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour! Votes: 0

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. Votes: 0

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society. Votes: 0

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. Votes: 0

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. Votes: 0

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. Votes: 0

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Votes: 0

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. Votes: 0

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. Votes: 0

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. Votes: 0

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past. Votes: 0

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace Votes: 0

Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today. Votes: 0

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. Votes: 0

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Votes: 0

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. Votes: 0

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. Votes: 0

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. Votes: 0

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. Votes: 0

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation. Votes: 0

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. Votes: 0

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements. Votes: 0

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Votes: 0

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. Votes: 0

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. Votes: 0

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. Votes: 0

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. Votes: 0

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. Votes: 0

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. Votes: 0

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color Votes: 0

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Votes: 0

Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Votes: 0

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks Votes: 0

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Votes: 0

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. Votes: 0

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy. Votes: 0

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. Votes: 0

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. Votes: 0

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. Votes: 0

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. Votes: 0

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me. Votes: 0

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods. Votes: 0

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow. Votes: 0

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West. Votes: 0

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. Votes: 0

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society. Votes: 0

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts. Votes: 0

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is. Votes: 0

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense. Votes: 0

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers. Votes: 0

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite. Votes: 0

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. Votes: 0

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. Votes: 0

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm. Votes: 0

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. Votes: 0

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. Votes: 0

...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society. Votes: 0

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people. Votes: 0

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society. Votes: 0

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top. Votes: 0

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism. Votes: 0

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society. Votes: 0

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. Votes: 0

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. Votes: 0

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. Votes: 0

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. Votes: 0

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can. Votes: 0

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential. Votes: 0

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two. Votes: 0

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. Votes: 0

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic. Votes: 0

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment. Votes: 0

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. Votes: 0

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. Votes: 0

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. Votes: 0

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Votes: 0

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. Votes: 0

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer." Votes: 0

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean. Votes: 0

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between. Votes: 0

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks. Votes: 0

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter. Votes: 0