Quotes About Society

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.