Society Quotes

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

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 if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.