Society Quotes

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

It is not a fragrant world.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

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.