Society Quotes

• I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Why
  • Society
  • Ignorance

• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  

  Jane Austen
  • Novels
  • Polite
  • Gothic

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

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Society

• If we want a great future in this world, we have to take God at his word, and God makes it really clear that society and civilization is held together by the glue of families... This is where the next generation of human beings are incubated and nurtured and matured - in homes. In families.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures. (p. 25)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Men
  • Society
  • Technology

• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • World
  • Work
  • Mind

• I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Society

• I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Justice
  • Challenge
  • Courage

• The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • American
  • Party
  • Wall

• If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Sex

• Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Important
  • Women
  • Competition

• When we have a new heart, we become new people, and then we have a new society, then we have a new nation.

  

  Y. C. James Yen
  • People
  • Heart
  • Society

• The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Model

• Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Society

• The most important gain is that each member of society will be able to predict the other’s actions. Concomitantly, the interaction of both becomes predictable… Many actions are possible on a low level of attention. Each action of one is no longer a source of astonishment and potential danger to the other.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Important
  • Action
  • Attention

• That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

  

  Aristotle
  • Political
  • Individual
  • Laws

• The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Solitude
  • Occupation
  • Plague

• If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Up
  • Science
  • Growing

• We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

  

  Mel Martinez
  • Different
  • American
  • Opportunity

• The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Society
  • Dreamer

• Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a ready supply of firearms.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Society

• The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Family
  • Power
  • Community

• I personally have always hated dating. I was never vulnerable or insecure in any part of my life, but I would become that way with a guy because they have control, according to society, when it comes to dating.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Control

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