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Quotes About Society

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
~ Brigitte Bardot
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it.
~ Mark R. Levin
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
~ Immanuel Kant
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
~ Hippolyte Taine
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
~ William Bernbach
A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
~ Henrik Ibsen
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.
~ Tom Hayden
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy
~ Peter L. Berger
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
~ Dennis Gabor
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.
~ Anwar Ibrahim
I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.
~ John Howard
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.
~ Ferdinand de Saussure
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
~ Cornel West
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.
~ Vilfredo Pareto