Society Quotes
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Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.
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I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
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What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.
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I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.
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If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
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Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
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Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.
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A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.
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Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.
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I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
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Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
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Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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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.
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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.
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I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
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Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
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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.
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I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.