Society Quotes

• There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Society
  • Flatterers

• There should be - we should have a society that, whether you're catching the train to anywhere, Frankston or Cranbourne or Craigieburn late at night, you should be able to do it with safety, and, increasingly, you are.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • Night
  • Society
  • Safety

• I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • World
  • Live
  • Society

• If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Society
  • Impossible
  • People's Faces

• I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

  

  Alan Bates
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

  

  Katharine Weymouth
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • People
  • Society
  • Running

• Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Movie
  • Society

• We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Up
  • Society

• We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • Black
  • Racism

• A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • High
  • Society

• I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Tennis
  • Selfish
  • Accomplishments

• I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to write stories about young women, and society doesn't place much of a premium on young women's stories. And I think that's why I gravitate towards it. I really honor that, and I treasure that time, and they should be given that respect.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time
  • Women
  • Why

• I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Lies
  • Silence
  • Sins

• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Mobility
  • Working Class
  • Basic Position

• The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Jesus
  • Virtue
  • Enemies

• The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Great
  • America
  • Today

• Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Exercise

• Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

  

  Max Eastman
  • Together
  • Society
  • Laughter

• 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

• I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Great
  • Society
  • Popular

• Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Deep

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