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Quotes About Society

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
~ Thiruvalluvar
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
~ James H. Cone
The fetus is the property of the entire society.
~ Nicolae Ceausescu
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
~ Kanye West
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
~ Francis Schaeffer
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
~ Barry Bonds
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
~ Lauren DeStefano
Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.
~ Thomas Piketty
I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.
~ Geert Wilders
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
~ Saina Nehwal
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
~ Henri Nouwen
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
~ Erma Bombeck
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
~ Helmut Newton
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
~ C. S. Lewis
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
~ Vladimir Putin
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
~ Michel Foucault
I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.
~ Moondog
Society's needs come before the individuals needs
~ Adolf Hitler
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.
~ Christiane Amanpour
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.
~ Sheila Kitzinger
If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade
~ Ian MacKaye