Quotes About Society

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society's state of mind

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.