Quotes About Society

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

The ultimate litmus test we endorse for any reform is whether it will serve to integrate the poor - particularly the $2-a-day poor - into society. It is not enough to provide material relief to those experiencing extreme deprivation. We need to craft solutions that can knit these hard-pressed citizens back into the fabric of their communities and their nation.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

The current phone obsession is a disease," Chance said. "Everyone's gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

The larger buildings are now rented out and house schools and institutions more secular in mission where the Internet and fax machine replace Scripture and theological discourse as the working paradigm. Perhaps it's a good metaphor for modern society. We're too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.

We're too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.

In the Gulag Archipelago there are no heroes or villains. No prince or pauper. It is the most democratic of all societies. Everyone is an inmate.

Prohibition! Everyone loves a flapper dress or a fake tommy gun, but who remembers the thousands of people who went blind drinking unregulated wood alcohol?

The rules say you have to be tall and thin and blonde and beautiful and not very smart and never want anything that you can't get from a man. So why the hell would I want to follow the rules?

Women who got married got screwed.

Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.

Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain

Individuality is the enemy of this mass society. Individuality speaks for the individual and makes him a significant factor. Art is individuality.

Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is "heads" - the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on the other side is "tails" - the precise specification of the amount the coin is worth as payment in exchange. One side reminds us that states underwrite currencies and the money is originally a relation between persons in society, a token perhaps. The other reveals the coin as a thing, capable of entering into definite relations with other things.

la mayor necesidad en cada región visitada son " líderes". Hoy más que nunca en las naciones del mundo necesitamos que emerjan verdaderos líderes que transformen para bien nuestra Sociedad.

Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.