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Quotes About Society

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
~ Andre Gide
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
~ Malcolm X
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
~ Audre Lorde
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
~ Wallace Stevens
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.
~ Peter Drucker
Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
~ Rajneesh
We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.
~ Pam Brown
In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.
~ Bernie Sanders
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
~ Victor Hugo
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side
~ Francis Parker Yockey
Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.
~ Bernardine Dohrn
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society
~ Tony Abbott
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
~ Hakim Bey
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
~ Tom Stoppard
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
~ Jessica Mitford
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought
~ Roy Hattersley
Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.
~ Alan Barth
A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.
~ Alex Carey
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
~ William Damon
It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.
~ Ann Coulter
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
~ Tom Hollander