Quotes About Society

Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.