Society Quotes

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Society is unity in diversity.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.