Society Quotes

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

If we come to power we will abolish the multi-ethnic society.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.