Society Quotes

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

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.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.