Quotes About Society

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

There are many kinds of truth: societal truths, religious truths, fundamental truths, scientific truths, and universal truths. Your truth should be what you can trust with your heart.

the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths