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Quotes About Society

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
~ Thomas Fuller
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.
~ Immanuel Kant
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
~ Carter Burwell
No social stability without individual stability.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~ Pope Paul VI
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~ Samuel Wilson
Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that
~ Tom Izzo
Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!
~ Amitabh Bachchan
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
~ Alan AtKisson
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.
~ Janet Holmes à Court
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
~ Marcel Proust
Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
~ Margaret Fuller
In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.
~ James Purdy
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
~ Leah Ward Sears
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
~ Samuel Johnson
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
~ Harry Belafonte
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.
~ Richard Ebeling
Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.
~ Heinz Galinski
A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.
~ Karen White
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
~ Gaston Caperton
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
~ Martin Parr
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.
~ Stephen D. Cox
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
~ John F. Kennedy