Quotes About Society

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.