Quotes About Society

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.