Quotes About Society

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.