Quotes About Society

We cannot have chaos reign in the streets.

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.

We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.

The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.

All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.

We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

This commitment to equality and justice for all are the ideals that our country was founded upon and what we continue to aspire to as people. We cannot be complacent, and must vigilantly affirm this again and again, as bigotry and hatred have an insidious way of seeping into our society.