Society Quotes

"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."

"A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument."

"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."

"A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity."

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

"A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing."

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."

"Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free."

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."

"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience."

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

"All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries."

"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."

"Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century."

"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard."

"Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on."

"Any society based on domination supports and condones violence."

"Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism."

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

"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."

"As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories."

"As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population."

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

"Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause."

"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."

"Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human."

"Children are under a relentless assault by all the forces of evil, and they are defenseless. And we have a society and a culture that wants to make sure that those who are pumping out this destruction are free to keep doing it without restraint."

"Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And type-three consciousness is simulating the future. And type-three consciousness, only humans have this ability to see far into the future."

"Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness."

"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."

"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."

"Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace."

"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."

"For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences."

"For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group."

"For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies."

"For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live."

"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community."

"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."

"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."

"How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!"

"I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea."

"I began running half-marathons and it helped my fundraising for the multiple sclerosis society and others."

"I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society."