Society Quotes
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
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I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.
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If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
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Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.
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Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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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.
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Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
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America at the turn of this century is a far freer, more egalitarian society than in 1900.
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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
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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.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
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All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.
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Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
