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Quotes About Society

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
~ Matthew Vaughn
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
~ Karen Armstrong
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
~ Faye Wattleton
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
~ Candace Bushnell
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
~ Tony Judt
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
~ Daniel Dennett
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
~ Irvine Welsh
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
~ Tina Yothers
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
~ Charles B. Rangel
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
~ Gideon Welles
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
~ Matt Gonzalez
HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.
~ Mathieu Kassovitz
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
~ Ludwig von Mises
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
~ Alexis Korner
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.
~ Robert Gilpin
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.
~ Thomas I. Emerson
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.
~ Jon Wynne-Tyson
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson