Quotes About Society

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

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