Society Quotes
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I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
Bill Gates
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I just want to try to hold this society and hold it together, so that they’re enjoying themselves together and appreciating the same things. I mean, we’re all part of the creation of God or whatever.
Michael Eavis
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The core problem in our society is political correctness.
Peter Thiel
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter
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We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.
Margrethe Vestager
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The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.
Paul Krugman
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
Victor Hugo
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In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.
John Rawls
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The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.
John Mackey
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While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
Neil MacGregor
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When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?
Nuhu Ribadu
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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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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.
Barbara Crampton
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'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.
Alan Colmes
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Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.
Amiri Baraka
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When we represent all cultures with sensitivity and truth, we foster a society that supports all people.
Mena Massoud
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I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.
Jerry Heller
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Stokely Carmichael
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I only noticed this after I had finished the film 'The Bad Batch,' and watched it again a few months later... Arlen, main character, is kind of like a shark because she keeps on moving forward. I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive.
Ana Lily Amirpour
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.
Aristotle
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We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.
John McCain
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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
Mike Tyson