Quotes About Society

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?