Quotes About Society

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.