The Society Quotes
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.
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
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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.
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.
If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
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.
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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.
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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 reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.
The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.