Quotes about Good Society

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected. Votes: 4

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Votes: 4

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. Votes: 4

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Votes: 4

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours. Votes: 3

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. Votes: 3

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. Votes: 3

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society. Votes: 3

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. Votes: 3

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. Votes: 3

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart. Votes: 3

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. Votes: 3

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. Votes: 3

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. Votes: 3

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. Votes: 3

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. Votes: 3

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. Votes: 3

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life. Votes: 3

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. Votes: 3

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it. Votes: 3

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult? Votes: 3

The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market. Votes: 3

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Votes: 3

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. Votes: 3

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws. Votes: 3

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered. Votes: 3

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error. Votes: 3

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course. Votes: 3

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. Votes: 3

The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms. Votes: 3

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. Votes: 3

The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society. Votes: 3

But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment. Votes: 3

Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"? Votes: 3

It is good for society to have this introspection. Votes: 2

What is good for society is also good for business. Votes: 2

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. Votes: 2

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society. Votes: 2

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad. Votes: 2

I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts. Votes: 2

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. Votes: 2

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. Votes: 2

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. Votes: 2

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. Votes: 2

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular. Votes: 2

There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society. Votes: 2

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare. Votes: 2

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Votes: 2

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Votes: 2

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. Votes: 2

What is good for society is also good for business, Votes: 0

The society of women is the element of good manners. Votes: 0

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society. Votes: 0

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men. Votes: 0

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society. Votes: 0

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors. Votes: 0

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

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. Votes: 0

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. Votes: 0

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable. Votes: 0

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good. Votes: 0

Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost. Votes: 0

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen. Votes: 0

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically. Votes: 0

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. Votes: 0

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. Votes: 0

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won. Votes: 0

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. Votes: 0

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. Votes: 0

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women. Votes: 0

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. Votes: 0

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society. Votes: 0

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society. Votes: 0

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. Votes: 0

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. Votes: 0

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society. Votes: 0

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. Votes: 0

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. Votes: 0

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society. Votes: 0

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people. Votes: 0

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society. Votes: 0

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves? Votes: 0

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. Votes: 0

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth. Votes: 0

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. Votes: 0

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society. Votes: 0

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. Votes: 0

The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society! Votes: 0

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all. Votes: 0

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal. Votes: 0

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist. Votes: 0

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn't be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product. Votes: 0

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society. Votes: 0

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. Votes: 0

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. Votes: 0

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. Votes: 0

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. Votes: 0

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who. Votes: 0

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. Votes: 0

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course. Votes: 0

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore. Votes: 0

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents. Votes: 0

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. Votes: 0

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different. Votes: 0

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power. Votes: 0

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. Votes: 0

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. Votes: 0

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible. Votes: 0

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. Votes: 0

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society. Votes: 0

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline. Votes: 0

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good. Votes: 0

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good. Votes: 0

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs. Votes: 0

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole. Votes: 0

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and society better. Votes: 0

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease. Votes: 0

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child. Votes: 0

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it. Votes: 0

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society. Votes: 0

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease. Votes: 0

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology. Votes: 0

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual. Votes: 0

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. Votes: 0

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored. Votes: 0

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good. Votes: 0

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs. Votes: 0

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good. 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

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals. Votes: 0

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. Votes: 0

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. Votes: 0

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom. Votes: 0

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. Votes: 0

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods Votes: 0

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society. Votes: 0

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists. Votes: 0

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. Votes: 0

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication. Votes: 0

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at. 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

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential. Votes: 0

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius. 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

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism. Votes: 0

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society. Votes: 0

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. Votes: 0

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate. Votes: 0

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind. Votes: 0

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. Votes: 0

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. 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

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. Votes: 0

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained. Votes: 0

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws. Votes: 0

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. Votes: 0

The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability. Votes: 0

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question. Votes: 0

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. Votes: 0

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society. Votes: 0

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. Votes: 0

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society. Votes: 0

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter. Votes: 0

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible. Votes: 0

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct. Votes: 0

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility. Votes: 0

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. Votes: 0

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. Votes: 0

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art." Votes: -1