Quotes About Society

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.