Society Quotes

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

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

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.