The Society Quotes

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

Business is society's change agent.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.