The Society Quotes

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

An armed society is a free society.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

Society becomes very destructive.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.