Society - Quotes & Sayings

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Karl A. Menninger

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Ludwig von Mises

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Joseph Jarman

There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.

Matt Bomer

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

Kimbal Musk

Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society, and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules.

Thomas E. Perez

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Orrin Hatch

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Bill Vaughan

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?

Benjamin Bratt

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kofi Annan

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Nelson Mandela

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Andrew Cuomo

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

Aretha Franklin

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Jerry Garcia

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H. L. Mencken

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Robert Kennedy

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

John F. Kennedy

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Albert Camus

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Nelson Mandela

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Maya Angelou

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Michel Foucault

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

Beck

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Simone de Beauvoir

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Barack Obama

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Thomas Jefferson

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Guy Kawasaki

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

Jeremy Irons

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

John Muir

When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

Cardi B

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville