Society Quotes

"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."

"What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society."

"We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality."

"I 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."

"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."

"I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession."

"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."

"The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out."

"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."

"The core problem in our society is political correctness."

"Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society."

"I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society."

"To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen."

"I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry."

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

"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."

"I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest."

"It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper."

"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."

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"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?"

"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."

"Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently."

"'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money."

"It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may."

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

"Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature."

"The 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."

"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."

"I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine."

"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself."

"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

"In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered."

"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

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

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

"I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat."

"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."

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."

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

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

"None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example."

"If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet."

"Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming."

"Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at."

"Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others."

"There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - our overall standard of living - will not rise as much as it could."

"'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT people across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different - the geeks and the nerds, and the people who felt they were not quite a part of society, sometimes because they may have been gay or lesbian."