Society Quotes

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

No emancipation without that of society.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.