The Society Quotes

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

Society is founded on hero-worship.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

No arts, no letters - no society.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.

I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our own views for everybody else in society regardless of their views.

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

We're social beasts, and we draw society around us.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.