This Society Quotes

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.