Quotes About Society

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.