Quotes About Society

Men build society and society builds men.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.