Quotes About Society

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.