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Quotes About Society

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
~ David L. Bazelon
We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.
~ David Simon
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
~ Tammy Bruce
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
~ Doug Stanhope
We live in a very gynophobic society
~ Bonnie Greer
If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.
~ Nelson Mandela
To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.
~ Naomi Wolf
Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.
~ Willis Harman
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
~ Cesar Chavez
In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
~ Charles Bukowski
The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
~ Stockwell Day
Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.
~ Myles Munroe
Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.
~ Mark Steyn
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
~ David Hume
Only when you question does society move or advance at all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
~ Deepak Chopra
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
~ Donald Miller
It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.
~ Rob James-Collier
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
~ E. O. Wilson
I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.
~ Edie Campbell
I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.
~ Edward Snowden
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.
~ Elinor Gadon