Society Quotes

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.