Society Quotes

We live in a society where everything's packaged.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

Our goal, as Christians, is to dominate society

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life and society and behavior.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

What is good for society is also good for business.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.