Society Quotes
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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
Wallace Stegner
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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
Paul Johnson
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The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
Dana Gioia
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Between man and his social environment there is a reciprocal action. Men make society what it is and society makes men what they are, and the result is therefore a kind of vicious circle.
Errico Malatesta
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The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.
Marilyn Ferguson
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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus
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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
John Hurt
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I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.
Wes Moore
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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
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Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
David L. Bazelon
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I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
Georgette Heyer
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Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.
Anjan Sundaram
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I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.
Bassam Tibi
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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
Honore de Balzac
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I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
Bad Bunny
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
Saul Bellow
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We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.
Dalai Lama
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The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.
Arun Manilal Gandhi
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When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.
Susan Hampshire
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We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
Augusto Boal
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R. D. Laing
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Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
Joshua Oppenheimer