Quotes About Society

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.