Quotes About Society

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability in industrial societies.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.