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Quotes About Society

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
~ Catherine Deneuve
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
~ George Orwell
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
~ Eugene McCarthy
Lowering the Lord's standards to the level of a society's inappropriate behavior is apostasy.
~ Lynn G. Robbins
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
~ Bill Gates
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
~ Salman Rushdie
I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.
~ Zach Galifianakis
The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society
~ Frederick Osborn
If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
~ Bill Gates
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
~ Frans Lanting
It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
~ Zaha Hadid
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
~ Albert Einstein
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~ Kenzo Tange
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
~ George Soros
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
~ Randall Munroe
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
~ Noam Chomsky
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
~ Spencer Bachus
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
~ Cornel West
I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.
~ Megan Young
You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.
~ Hugh Hefner
There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek