Society - Quotes & Sayings
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice DruonI haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.
Nicolas CageThe enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson WellesImagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
Jules VerneWithout a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
Thomas SowellI come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
Anthony HopkinsBefore we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
Don Miguel RuizSports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean KingIn any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
Elie WieselThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone WeilNobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund BurkeSociety in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas PaineThe press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.
Steven BikoThe ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
Robert KennedyI was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
Mikhail BaryshnikovLanguage has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
David CrystalI have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan BehanBut, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
Audre LordeI believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy GrahamThe original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.
Lee Kuan YewWe are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
Michel FoucaultI am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron PaulYou cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Bashar al-AssadWhen someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto EcoI know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.
Andy BiersackSolitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell LowellFashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
Stefano GabbanaWho needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
Danny KayeThe right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
Benjamin NetanyahuThe Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.
Pierre NantermeOur society is used to judging content by its package and label.
Joanna KrupaThe function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
Marina AbramovicAny society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
David IckeThe World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the perfect place for a dialogue that brings together industry, civil society, U.N. agencies, and countries around a shared response to the challenge of protecting children against vaccine-preventable illness.
Seth BerkleyProbation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety.
Sadiq KhanIn a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
Alex GreyOnly a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.
Jessica ChastainThere is no higher value in our society than integrity.
Arlen SpecterAmerica's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
Steve EarleThe entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
Karrine SteffansI readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
Palaniappan ChidambaramWe coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
Abdolkarim SoroushThe more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
Raghuram RajanConflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.
John McLaughlinWatching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
Peter MullanSociety is better off without certain people.
Bernhard GoetzFootball has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
Vicente del BosqueWe need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
Elliott AbramsThe idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
David AmramThe human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson