Quotes About Society

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

A lot of subjects are untouched by the Indian Television.

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.

Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

The military is a microcosm of American society, so it really is not unusual that they would have Klan people and white supremacy people connected to them.

I did a psychotherapy day once, about class, and the first thing they did was get us to talk about our names. Of course, me, being called Grayson, everybody thinks its somehow unusual and classy. No, its bang-on aspirational working class.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Many Saudi clerics believe that letting women drive means they will be free to leave the house whenever they like - something that will have a liberalizing and, therefore, unwanted effect on society.

My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject.

All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a constant feeling of homesickness - that unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach.

Our society is ridden with corruption and corrupt people. This is perhaps the reason why despite receiving several offers, I am unwilling to contest elections as I lack what it takes to become a politician.

I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.