The Society Quotes

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.