Quotes About Society

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.