Quotes About Society

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.