The Society Quotes

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

The road to being somebody in this society starts with education.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

when women progress, all of society benefits.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

Families are the bedrock of our society.

I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.

Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

I serve society by rocking!

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.