Society Quotes
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Gaylord Nelson
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I am not just some rich society lady…This is not about manicures and going out to lunch.
Nancy Brinker
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We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
Chen Shui-bian
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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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As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
Peter Thiel
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
William R. Alger
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I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.
Henry Sy
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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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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 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.
Jeremy Corbyn
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a conservative organization. I am a conservative. You can't get more conservative than being a conservationist. Our entire raison de etre is to conserve and protect. The radicals of the world are destroying our oceans and our forests, our wildlife and our freedom.
Paul Watson
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To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
Marilyn Monroe
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I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.
Laurene Powell Jobs
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The society killed Kendra." ... Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.
Brandon Mull
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In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?
Elizabeth Wordsworth
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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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Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
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Feminism means to me aquality, actually. Women having equal rights to every thing the male population have in all aspects. Whether that's socially, or within the household or in the workplace. I don't find it a difficult word but it does have a lot of baggage. There's still a lot of work to be done in various parts of the world and society. If you look at where a woman's place was a couple of generations ago, there's been a huge development and progression. And it's an important queston to keep bringing up.
Edith Bowman
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It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of true wealth creators.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Clara Zetkin