Society Quotes

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

"We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing."

"There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society."

"In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society."

"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."

"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."

"The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society."

"We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price."

"Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together."

"The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies."

"The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."

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

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

"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."

"The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion."

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