Quotes About Society

Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

Societies go backwards sometimes.

Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.