The Society Quotes
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.
The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for the rights of all Iraqis.
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.
It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.
It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.
This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.
We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.
The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.
God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose its influence. He is God and He is influencing society.
The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.
If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!
If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!
Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!
No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!
The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!
The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!
Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.
After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.
If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.
When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.
I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.