Society Quotes

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

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

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?