Society Quotes
- Page 3Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
Charles Rangel
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
Christopher Dawson
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
Jeb Bush
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
Kathleen Turner
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
Louis Althusser
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Taylor Hackford
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
Sarah Zettel
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Hernando Cortes
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Jude Law
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
Tom Walsh
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
Daisaku Ikeda
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Matt LeBlanc
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
Herbert Read
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
Miriam Makeba
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
Lester B. Pearson
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
Patricia Hewitt
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
Ian MacKaye
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold