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Quotes About Society

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
~ Peter Drucker
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
~ Hosea Ballou
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
~ John Taylor Gatto
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.
~ Princess Diana
But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
~ Muhammad Yunus
I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.
~ James F. Cooper
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.
~ Sharif Abdullah
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
~ Wei Jingsheng
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
~ Theodor Herzl
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
~ Les Wexner
I will create value for society, rather than extract it.
~ John C. Bogle
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~ Erma Bombeck
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
~ Isaac Asimov
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
~ Bertrand Russell
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
~ Billy Graham
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
~ Rachel Bilson
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
~ Beck
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
~ Ulrich Beck
It's not me but the world that's deranged.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Artists don't create society, they reflect it
~ Ben Elton, Popcorn