Society Quotes
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
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We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.
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I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.
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It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
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Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.
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I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others and to use the opportunities that I had had in my life to really turn that around and to make an impact and to carry forth some of the issues that I believe are important to the future of our society.
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People don't talk about the amount of destruction in terms of human lives that happen, whether it's through slavery, or through, for example, what Belgium was doing in the Congo - the fragmentation of society that happened after that destruction of human life.
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Exactly what useful work did those stockbrokers do to gain their enormous wealth, other than to exploit the people who work in industry, to take their money away and to make no useful contribution to society? Does the hon. Gentleman think that the working people of London are so stupid as not to realise that stockbrokers are parasites?
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To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
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Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
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The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.
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A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
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Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.
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There’s this thing that black kids are not allowed to be children. We’re immediately aged in the eye of society.
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There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.
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The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
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For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
