Society Quotes

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.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.