Society Quotes
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
Athol Fugard
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
James Cook
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The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
Liam Cunningham
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We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
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..Whenever it ceases to be true that mankind, as a rule, prefer themselves to others, and those nearest to them to those more remote, from that moment Communism is not only practicable, but the only defensible form of society...
John Stuart Mill
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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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Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.
Michael Gurian
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We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.
Josh Mandel
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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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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
Heather Brooke
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
Moliere
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society.
Allyson Robinson
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People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.
Sandra Brown
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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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In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.
Andrew Mango
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Peter L. Berger
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
Emily James Smith Putnam
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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.
Aaron Rose
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Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.
Carolyn Custis James
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China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.
John Quelch
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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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I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar