Society Quotes

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

I go through the motions of living in society

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

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

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

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.

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

I think the Bible should be re-written for today's society. We can call it 'Scrubs.'

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.