Society Quotes

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

The great hope of society is in individual character

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

People make the rules of society, not God.

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.