Quotes About Society

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

Business is society's change agent.

Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.