The Society Quotes

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

The first bond of society is marriage.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

Let those who like society better have it.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.