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Quotes About Society

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
~ Tibor R. Machan
Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
~ Sai Baba
Love is a secret society, a community for two.
~ Melvin Burgess
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
~ Carroll O'Connor
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
~ Walter Weyl
The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
~ Polykarp Kusch
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.
~ Thom Yorke
I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
~ Mark Udall
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
~ D. H. Lawrence
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
~ Mark Twain
Real change in society must start from individual initiative.
~ Dalai Lama
Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.
~ Dalai Lama
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
~ Daniel Botkin
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
~ Daniel Suarez
I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
~ Yoko Ono
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
~ Marya Mannes
Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.
~ Stephanie March
The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.
~ Peace Pilgrim
I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.
~ Damian Marley
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.
~ Dave Hickey
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.
~ David Cheriton