Quotes About Society

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.

In modern society, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for men to be men. For masculinity to flourish in all its glory. For daring and risk-taking to live free, or at least relatively free. Fraternities are one of those places. They deserve to be protected.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.