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Quotes About Society

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
~ Voltaire
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
~ Terence McKenna
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
~ John W. Gardner
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
~ Roger Scruton
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
~ George Santayana
In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.
~ Michael Tsarion
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.
~ Maria Julia Hernandez
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
~ Leon Trotsky
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
~ Sigmund Freud
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
~ Adrienne Clarkson
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
~ Jill Soloway
There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn't be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.
~ Ron Paul
Let those who like society better have it.
~ John Nelson Darby
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
~ Vito Fossella
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
~ George Santayana
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.
~ Yvon Chouinard
In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.
~ Dean Lombardi
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
~ Richard Wall
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
~ Lewis Mumford
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
~ Eric Schmidt