Society Quotes

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

America's a very traumatized society.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.