Quotes About Society

There are other ideologies with which to expunge the last vapors of reasonableness from a society's discourse, but Islam is undoubtedly one of the best we've got.

By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.