Logo
Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. – John Haynes Holmes

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Society
category

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. – Charles Rangel

Category:
Society

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. – Minoru Yamasaki

Category:
Society

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. – Rand Paul

Category:
Society

Were in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into peoples musical taste. – K. D. Lang

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

Category:
Love

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Category:
Humor

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. – Richard Cobden

Category:
Education

Make tea, not war. – Monty Python

Category:
Tea