Society Quotes

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

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

"Without 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."

"The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats."

"I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself."

"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'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society."

"Women are the real architects of society."

"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."

"Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle."

"In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far."

"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."

"We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society."

"It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction."

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

"We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute."

"The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society."

"I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society."

"We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology."

"Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."

"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

"If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself."

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."

"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."

"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."

"Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society."

"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."

"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."

"The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society."

"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."

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

"We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself."

"One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not."

"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."

"I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you."

"Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor."

"I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all."

"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."

"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."

"Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that."

"Paul Krugman is a danger to society!"