Quotes About Society

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself.

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

The package destroys not just the peace process but all the peace dynamics in society. This is a bid to crush opposition.