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Quotes About Society

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
~ Learned Hand
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
~ Reuben Blades
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
~ Ralph Abernathy
There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.
~ Nicolae Ceausescu
Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.
~ Shakira
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
~ Benito Mussolini
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.
~ Andrei Sakharov
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.
~ Jean Chretien
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
~ Thomas Kuhn
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
~ Theodore Kaczynski
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
~ James Madison
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
~ Seth Godin
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
~ Zero Mostel
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
~ William Gibson
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
~ Vine Deloria Jr.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
~ Anne Lamott
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
~ Edward Abbey
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
~ John Lydon
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.
~ Salvador Allende
During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.
~ George W. Bush