Society Quotes

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

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.