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Quotes About Society

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.
~ Helen Thomas
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Families are the bedrock of our society.
~ Hillary Clinton
As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.
~ Iggy Pop
[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
~ William Gibson
Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
~ Victor Hugo
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.
~ William Shakespeare
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
~ Russell T Davies
Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.
~ J. Gordon Melton
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.
~ Terry Bozzio
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
~ Yoko Ono
We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
~ Van Jones
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
~ Honore de Balzac
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
~ Hortense Calisher
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
~ Robert Redford
There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.
~ Simon Calder
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
~ Robert Southey
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.
~ Jacques Barzun
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
~ Susan Howatch