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Quotes About Society

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
~ William Penn
I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.
~ Tim Kaine
All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police
~ Chris Patten
Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.
~ David Barton
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
~ Philip Yancey
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
~ Teresa Nielsen Hayden
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.
~ Donald Phillip Verene
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
~ Emile M. Cioran
At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: 'Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.'
~ Starhawk
When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.
~ Gail Carriger
A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.
~ Steve Aylett
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
~ Harri Holkeri
Divorce is marital welfare.It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married.
~ Stephen Colbert
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
~ Warren Buffett
[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
~ David O. McKay
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
~ Doris Lessing
I go through the motions of living in society
~ Wendy Rose
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.
~ Edward Kennedy
I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.
~ Reggie Watts
When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.
~ Emily Yoffe
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
~ Flora Lewis