Society Quotes

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.