Society Quotes

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Women are the real architects of society.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.