Society Quotes

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.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

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

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.