Society Quotes

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.