Society Quotes

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.