Society Quotes

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Terry Eagleton
Topic: Society Visits: 55

About Author

Name: Terry Eagleton

Topic: Society

About: NA

Other topics from this author: age business faith future health history home imagination knowledge learning poetry politics positive society sympathy war


Related Quotes

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
Topic: Society Visits: 239

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Herbert Read
Topic: Society Visits: 235

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Hugh Kingsmill
Topic: Society Visits: 231

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Johann Most
Topic: Society Visits: 225

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Stella Adler
Topic: Society Visits: 213

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

Peter Mullan
Topic: Society Visits: 212

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

Kevin Smith
Topic: Society Visits: 209

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

H. Rap Brown
Topic: Society Visits: 208

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Christopher Lasch
Topic: Society Visits: 208

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

Lester Bangs
Topic: Society Visits: 208

Inpirational Quotes at Awiseguru


At Awiseguru, our mission is to empower people to live a better life by helping them in their lives or businesses focus on people, not on paperwork..Read More.....

yayskool

Usage of awiseguru.com to upload content which is inappropriate or which enables targeting by religion/community/caste/race is prohibited. Please report inappropriate content by writing to us at [email protected] to report.