Quotes About Society

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.