The Society Quotes

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

America's a very traumatized society.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

We have a responsibility not just as atheletes, but as members of society to treat people well. To do things the right way.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

I created the Huffington Post in the United States of America which is a left of center blog. I created my blogs which are mostly right of center and I believe in open debate in our society.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.