Society Quotes

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

I don't care. I'll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created X-Men!

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.