Quotes About Society

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.