Quotes About Society

For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?