The Society Quotes

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.