Quotes About Society

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.