Quotes About Society

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.