Society Quotes

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

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

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.