Quotes About Society

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Literature is the expression of society.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.