Quotes About Society

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We're not whole.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?