The Society Quotes

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

So as I increase in my knowledge, in my training and education, I increase in my value in my worth to society that I’m trying to penetrate.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.