Quotes About Society

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.