Quotes About Society

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.