Quotes About Society

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.