Society Quotes

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

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

No emancipation without that of society.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.