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Quotes About Society

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
~ Kano Jigoro
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
~ Zhuangzi
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
~ Émile Durkheim
The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
~ James Connolly
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
~ Roger Sherman
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
~ Walter Gropius
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
~ Jacque Fresco
We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.
~ Thurgood Marshall
I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.
~ Ashley Graham
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
~ John Rawls
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
~ Thabo Mbeki
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
~ Marco Rubio
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
~ Ai Weiwei
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
~ Émile Durkheim
All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.
~ Michio Kaku
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
~ Robert Owen
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.
~ Nelson Mandela
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
~ Amartya Sen
Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
~ William Wallace
Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.
~ Rajneesh