Society Quotes
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Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
Nick Sagan
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There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
Gautama Buddha
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The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.
Ezra Furman
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
Charlie Jane Anders
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A film is a portrait of an aspect of society.
Nick Broomfield
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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.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.
Brad Warner
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Benjamin Carson
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
Joe Biden
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The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.
George David Birkhoff
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
Simone de Beauvoir
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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
George Bernard Shaw
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I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.
Hillary Clinton
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The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
Thomas Sowell
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It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.
Bryan Kest
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Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
George Soros
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
Michel Foucault
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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
Walt Whitman
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Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.
Michel Foucault
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As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.
Evelyn Underhill