Quotes About Society

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.