Society Quotes
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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
John Major
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
Lord Byron
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Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?
Aharon Katzir
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There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.
Caroline Ghosn
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History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
James Howard Kunstler
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I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things morph, and you get to confront issues in your dreams.
Bill Pullman
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Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.
Li Lu
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This book... too, is a society - of many small ideas. Each by itself is only common sense, yet when we join enough of them we explain the strangest mysteries of mind.
Marvin Minsky
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
Joseph Beuys
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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
John Hodgman
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
Bradford Cox
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
Oscar Wilde
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
George McGovern
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We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.
Frank Abagnale
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If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
Boris Sidis
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury
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It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
John Holdren
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At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
Lucy Powell
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
Seth Godin
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Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.
Deborah Tannen
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I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.
Earle Brown
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The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.
Pierre Trudeau