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Quotes About Society

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
~ Kofi Annan
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
~ Joan D. Vinge
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
~ Bryant H. McGill
They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
~ Bill Hicks
Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured
~ Thomas Paine
Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.
~ Jackson Katz
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
~ Henry Adams
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.
~ Koichiro Matsuura
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
~ Pope John Paul II
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
~ David Hare
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
~ RuPaul
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
~ Victor Hugo
I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.
~ George Soros
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
~ Peter Fonda
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.
~ Murray Rothbard
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
~ Christopher Lasch
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
~ Maria Montessori
Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?
~ Dan Brown
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
~ Christopher Lasch
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
~ Rebecca West