Society Quotes

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.