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Quotes About Society

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
~ Albert Camus
There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.
~ Theodor Adorno
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.
~ Guillermo del Toro
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
~ James Madison
What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
~ Sai Baba
If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
~ Robert Reich
I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.
~ Emmanuel Macron
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
~ Yasmina Reza
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.
~ Joseph Stalin
I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.
~ Daniel Negreanu
We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent.
~ Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
~ Margaret Mead
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
~ George Osborne
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.
~ Chris Burden
Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.
~ Simon Mainwaring
The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.
~ Toshihiko Fukui
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
~ Leonardo Boff
We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.
~ Jay Leno