Society Quotes

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

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.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!