Quotes About Society

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.