Society Quotes
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
George McGovern
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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.
Immanuel Kant
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Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
Bill James
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Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.
Lauren Lapkus
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Education imparted by heart can bring revolution in the society.
Abul Kalam Azad
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Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
A. N. Wilson
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As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
Jacque Fresco
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The ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.
Colin Ward
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
Nadine Gordimer
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller
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There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
Luke Ford
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It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
Meghan Daum
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I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.
Marcy Kaptur
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I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.
Joan Lunden
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
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I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.
Sean Spicer
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As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.
Vitalik Buterin
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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
America Ferrera
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What is good for society is also good for business.
Petter Stordalen