The Society Quotes

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.