Quotes About Society

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?