The Society Quotes

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

The greatest business icons-it's not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it's that they moved society forward.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.