Society Quotes

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

I've always explored various areas of society.

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women feel like, oh, you're getting old.

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.