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Quotes About Society

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
~ Lisa Murkowski
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
~ Vint Cerf
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
~ David Smith
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
~ Andrew Vachss
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
~ Lynn Coady
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.
~ Arthur Chapman
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
~ Lin Yutang
Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
~ Ann Cotton
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.
~ Sebastien Chamfort
Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
~ Arthur Balfour
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.
~ James Thurber
It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.
~ Sarah Gavron
We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.
~ Brad Feld
There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.
~ Hippolyte Taine
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
~ Octavio Paz
Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.
~ Arthur Stringer
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.
~ Charles Lamb
It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.
~ William Thackeray
I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
~ Darell Hammond
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
~ Pat Buchanan