Quotes About Society

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.