Society Quotes

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

I mean the world is a place where it feels like a woman has to go out everywhere in society, you have to buy her and cook her a meal and stuff.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.