Society Quotes

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

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.

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.