Quotes About Society

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.