Society Quotes

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

Man was formed for society.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

Society's epitome of credibility is John Wayne, who sizes up a situation and says, "Here's what I'm going to do" - and you follow him.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.