Quotes About Society

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

It does not matter how much we donate it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.