Society Quotes

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

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.