Society Quotes

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

It is important that social, political, and religious freedoms grow in China. A society which recognizes religious freedom is a society which will recognize political freedom as well.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains