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Quotes About Society

In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.
~ Lawrence Kohlberg
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~ Sigmund Freud
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
~ Abbie Hoffman
I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.
~ John Connolly
You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.
~ Howard Jacobson
A society where divisiveness leads to crassness that seems to feel it's justified by political bent. Is that really who we want to be? Is that what our nation was built on?
~ Martha MacCallum
Justin Trudeau is always saying diversity's our strength. It is not our strength.
~ Maxime Bernier
Although I'm sure she's completely charming and delightful, I'm not sure if Kate Middleton might be the best role model. This is a person who has got where she is by marriage, a person whose weight, clothing, hair we worry about - we don't worry about what she's thinking.
~ Sandi Toksvig
I feel we need more quality badminton players; I will put in the best efforts to inculcate discipline in those who are keen to make a mark both in sports and in the society.
~ Jwala Gutta
There is no single individual greater than a mother. They are the great keepers of our society and heads of our households.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.
~ James Langevin
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
~ Elisabeth Shue
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.
~ Howard Stringer
In Kenya particularly, we have a lot to say - we're sort of obsessed with politics. We have three nightly news broadcasts, predominantly bad politics.
~ Ory Okolloh
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'
~ Cy Twombly
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
~ Hu Jintao
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
~ Mary McCarthy
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
~ Bill Condon
65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when it kicked in - pre-1970 immigrants, 30% went home. They couldn't make it.
~ Ann Coulter
I am a serial killer. I would kill again.
~ Aileen Wuornos
I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.
~ Annie Ilonzeh
I'll have men, or I'll have women say that I'll never be a woman because I don't menstruate, or because I'm not made up like Kim Kardashian. So in that sense, I use makeup for a little bit of confidence. But for the most part, day-to-day, I wear makeup if it feels good.
~ Carmen Carrera
A lot of people talk about J. Lo, Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, but, like, dude butts are still here.
~ Anders Holm
If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.
~ Bob Beckel