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Quotes About Society

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
~ Alice Walker
Successful guilt is the bane of society
~ Publilius Syrus
The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
~ Allen Newell
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
~ Georg Simmel
The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.
~ Richard Cornuelle
As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.
~ Ai Weiwei
In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
~ Robert Bly
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
~ Pope Francis
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
~ Matthew Lesko
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
~ Andrei Sakharov
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
~ Marva Collins
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.
~ Andrew Carnegie
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
~ Peter Drucker
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.
~ Ann Landers
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
~ Warren Buffett
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
~ Nelson Mandela
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
~ Dalai Lama
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
~ Victor Pinchuk
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Leap