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Quotes About Society

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
~ George F. Kennan
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.
~ Desmond Morris
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
~ Gerda Lerner
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.
~ John Adams
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.
~ Laurie Cabot
To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
~ America Ferrera
Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
~ Eartha Kitt
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
~ Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
~ Ayn Rand
The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.
~ Sister Souljah
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
~ Learned Hand
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
~ John Dewey
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)
~ Tony Elumelu
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
~ Julian Assange
Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.
~ Joseph Bernardin
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
~ Peter Drucker
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.
~ R. H. Tawney
I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.
~ Francesco Totti
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
~ Ayn Rand