Quotes About Society

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.