Society Quotes

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.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

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.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

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.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.