Quotes About Society

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.