Quotes About Society

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.