Society Quotes

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.