Quotes About Society

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Por desgracia, la línea divisoria entre la noticia y el chisme siempre ha sido muy delgada.

She would, in fact, make a quite deplorable duchess.