Quotes About Society

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.