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Quotes About Society

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
~ Sean Penn
The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.
~ Edward Bernays
I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.
~ Kim Campbell
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
~ Ivan Illich
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
~ Edith Wharton
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
~ Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
~ Leslie Caron
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
~ Mark Twain
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
~ Saint Augustine
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
~ Jacque Fresco
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
~ Patch Adams
We should wear whatever we think looks nice and wear it with confidence. That will put you in a good mood and I think it will lead to an abundant society
~ Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.
~ John M. Perkins
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
~ Naomi Wolf
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.
~ Melanie Muller
Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society's most neglected members.
~ Pope Francis
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.
~ Pat Buchanan