The Society Quotes

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves.

Society's the mother of convention.

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.