A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
원칙보다 특권을 더 중시하는(value its privileges above its principles) 사람은 곧두개 모두를 잃게(soon lose both) 된다.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
바퀴벌레와 사교계 명사들(Cockroaches and socialites)은 밤을 새우고 무엇이든 먹어치울 수 있는 유일한 존재들(the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything)이다.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Martha Beck
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A. Whitney Brown
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Al Roker
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
It is good for society to have this introspection.
Jacques Verges
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Valerie Solanas
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
Hugh Kingsmill
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
사회는 사람을 조각상 같은 것들로 만들어서(carve one into the kind of statue likes) 그 것을 자기가 갖고 있는 가장 편리한 자리에 배치하는(place it in the most convenient niche it has) 하나의 방대한 음모(one vast conspiracy)다.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Charles de Secondat
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
과거의 위험(the danger of the past)은 사람이 노예가 되는(become slaves) 것이었는데, 미래의 위험은 사람이 로봇이 될 수 있다는(may become robots) 것이다.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
사회의 적(the enemy of society)은 중산층(middle class)이고, 인생의 적은 중년(middle age)이다.
Orson Welles
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
자유로운 사회의 제1원칙(the first principle of a free society)은 공개된 자리에서 속박받지 않는 말들의 흐름(an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum)이다.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
어느 사회든 가장 위험한 창조물(the most dangerous creation of any society)은 아무 것도 잃을 것 없는 사람(the man who has nothing to lose)이다.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
쥐들의 경주(극심한 생존경쟁)에 있어 문제(the trouble with the rat race)는 설혹 당신이 이긴다 해도(even if you win) 당신은 여전히 쥐라는 사실이다.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar N. Bradley
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Charles Edwards
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Hillary Clinton
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
신은 죽었다면서 엘비스 프레슬리는 살아있다고(God is dead and Elvis is alive) 하는 사회에 대해서 당신은 무슨 말을 할 수 있겠는가(what can you say about the society).
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Candace Bushnell
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
인류에 대한 신념을 잃어서는 안된다(must not lose faith in humanity). 인류는 대양과 같은 것이다. 대양의 물 몇 방울이 더럽다하더라도(if a few drops of the ocean are dirty) 대양은 더러워지지 않는다(do not become dirty).
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