Society Quotes

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

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.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our 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.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.