Quotes About Society

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.