Society Quotes

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.