Society Quotes
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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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Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.
Isabella Lovin
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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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..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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Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
Gene Robinson
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When you look at police violence, over the last three or four years, whether you call it a social, economic or racial thing, these are the guys that we're supposed to trust. These are the guys who are given these guns and weapons to protect us. Not to use them upon us, but to protect us, and they can't even get it right. So, if they can't get it right, how can you fault a society for fearing them, and fearing them in a way that makes them want to take up arms and fight back.
Edwin Hodge
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Henrik Ibsen
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
Joe Biden
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We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.
Radhika Apte
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
Bernard Berenson
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
John Stuart Mill