Society Quotes

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Weve become a plastic society.

It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.

Women spend the money of society on its goods.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any  -  but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

The society killed Kendra." ... Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.

In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.