Quotes About Society

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted."

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.