Society Quotes
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.
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I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
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Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.
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All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
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I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
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Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
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Literature is the expression of society.
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There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.
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The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.