Society Quotes
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Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
Gene Robinson
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
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This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
Sydney Schanberg
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The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
Marshall McLuhan
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Jacob Zuma
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
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Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
Adel al-Jubeir
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The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society.
Allyson Robinson
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I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.
Evan Wolfson
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If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
Pope Francis
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We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.
Kevin Hassett
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill Gates
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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
Francois Hollande
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And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.
E. M. Forster
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon
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I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.
Jonathan Raymond
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To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
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Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
Leland Stanford
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
Edwin H. Friedman
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
Blaise Pascal
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I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.
Margaret Qualley
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What I am describing is not only a society dominated by corporatist structures, but by the received wisdom of a corporatist atmosphere: one in which the élites are interest-driven, whatever their jobs. And so the society is gradually being redrawn to suit this ethic-free system.
John Ralston Saul
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We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.
Li Keqiang