Quotes About Society

The paradox is that liberalism is concerned with the emotions above all else, as proof of which the word happiness stands at the very center of its thought, but in its effort to establish the emotions, or certain among them, in some sort of freedom, liberalism somehow tends to deny them in their full possibility.

IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday

We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.

Do you really think it's all gone away? Mental illness has just moved underground, into the homeless shelters and the city parks. Out of sight, out of mind for the taxpayers. It's a crying shame.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.