Society Quotes

• Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Different
  • Friendship
  • View

• The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

  

  William James
  • Violence
  • Happiness
  • Politics

• When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?

  

  Bob Dornan
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Destiny

• I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

  

  Sean Spicer
  • Free
  • Understanding
  • Difference

• The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Success
  • Way

• A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

  

  Ian Harris
  • American
  • Society
  • Thoughtful

• I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

  

  Ana Lily Amirpour
  • Society
  • Modern
  • Survive

• No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Stabilization

• We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Society
  • Living
  • Changing

• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

  

  John Milton
  • Society
  • Harmony
  • Delight

• If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Bad
  • Society

• In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Society

• Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • Protection
  • Tyranny

• I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Great
  • Society
  • Values

• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Society
  • Care
  • Incumbent

• If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Violence
  • Racism
  • Hearts

• For all the advances of modern societies, traditional tribal communities may have better served the essential needs of people for emotional support, nutrition, and exercise than does contemporary society. We don’t need to return to the ways of our ancestors, but we do need to learn from them.

  

  David Korten
  • People
  • May
  • Support

• 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
  • Women
  • High
  • Society

• The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Society
  • Principles
  • Definitions

• We now face five years of an unbridled Conservative government that is intent on swingeing cuts, further attacks on society’s most vulnerable and on our NHS. This will severely limit what can be achieved but I am determined to work tirelessly to do what I can to make sure local people are heard in Parliament and protected from the worst of what is to come.

  

  Jo Cox
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Real
  • Carbon
  • Wellbeing

• Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • People
  • Society

• Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Today
  • Violence

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