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Quotes About Society

The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
~ Edward Snowden
I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.
~ Tupac Shakur
The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.
~ Stephen Colbert
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
~ Aamir Khan
Justice as fairness provides what we want.
~ John Rawls
We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.
~ Howard Gardner
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.
~ James McBride
Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.
~ Amelia Warner
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
~ Ana Castillo
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
~ Bob Geldof
Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.
~ Mario Savio
The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.
~ Abdul Sattar Edhi
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
~ Erich Fromm
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
~ Jackie Chan
You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
~ Myles Horton
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.
~ Ronald Reagan
A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.
~ Charles Koch
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
~ John Shelby Spong
We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.
~ Norma McCorvey
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.
~ Eugene V. Debs
It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
~ Jacque Fresco
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
~ Jack Nicholson