Society Quotes

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

Who is he?" "An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.

You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

The number one problem in our society today is short-term thinking.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

The common damn'd shun their society.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!

If you're driving more than 50 mph through a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph, I question whether you should keep your driver's license. You're a menace to society.

If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

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.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to put 'em up there on it, and then we can't wait for the day they fall off of it.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

Leftists don't leave it at winning at the ballot box. If they lose at the ballot box, they force themselves on the country or society elsewhere.