The Society Quotes
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.
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.
My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.
Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.
Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.
Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.
From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.
We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.
I am content and happy with my situation and like the flexibility that comes with being self-employed. And it's nice to know that I can contribute something to society
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.
I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.
