Society Quotes

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

The ability of the market to serve society gas been and is continually being undermined by the attacks levelled by its ideological opponents.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

Society should emphasize personality. Accomplishment. Interest. Intelligent things. I think everybody should look as good as possible too.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

A secret society within a secret society.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

It is our first duty to serve society.

Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.

Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?