Quotes About Society

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.