Quotes About Society

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.