Society Quotes

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.