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Quotes About Society

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
~ Paul Newman
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
~ Russell Kirk
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
~ Paddy Ashdown
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
~ B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
~ Martha Gellhorn
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
~ Ernest A. Fortin
I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.
~ John Robbins
If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.
~ Michael Bloomberg
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
~ Ric Ocasek
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.
~ Mas Oyama
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.
~ Katharine Graham
What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?
~ Osamu Dazai
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
~ Edward Albee
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
~ Aaron Russo
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
~ Justin Welby
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
~ Manning Marable
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
~ Madeleine Albright
What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.
~ John Dickinson
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
~ Matt Blunt
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
~ Sasha Grey