Society Quotes

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.