Society Quotes

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

We've turned into a whining society.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.