Society Quotes
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The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
Emmanuel Macron
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Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
Pablo Picasso
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I created the Huffington Post in the United States of America which is a left of center blog. I created my blogs which are mostly right of center and I believe in open debate in our society.
Andrew Breitbart
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
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If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.
Chen Guangbiao
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Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.
William Cowper
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What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
William Winwood Reade
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac
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If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
J. Bowyer Bell
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We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.
Jonathan Stroud
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Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
Colin Ward
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It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
Michel Foucault
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Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.
Li Lu
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It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.
Leo Varadkar
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The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.
Anders Chydenius
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
C. S. Lewis
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Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
Benjamin Thompson
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paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.
John Skipper
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The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead
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An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
Maria Semple
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Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.
P. W. Singer
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand
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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
Peter Thiel