Society Quotes

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.