Society Quotes

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.