The Society Quotes

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.

I want to create a society that is working for me and with me - and I am working for society, not against it.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

We're in a society, I think, where everyone thinks it's so cool to work, it's so cool to be online, so cool to be super busy. I think it's super cool not to be busy.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.