This Society Quotes

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Poets sing our human music for us.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.