Quotes About Society

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

An armed society is a polite society.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.