Society Quotes

• America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

  

  James A. Leach
  • America
  • Society
  • Leadership

• Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Men
  • Law
  • Saving

• The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Society
  • Support
  • Marriage

• The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • People
  • Today
  • Sick

• Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Society

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Moral

• I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

  

  Marya Mannes
  • Real
  • Power
  • Society

• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Believe
  • True
  • Revolution

• The security of the woman is the security of society.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Society
  • Woman
  • Security

• I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

  

  David Cameron
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Movie
  • Violence
  • Moral

• Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • School
  • Society

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • World
  • New

• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Respect
  • Model
  • Role Model

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Arguments
  • Vulgar

• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Marriage
  • Sex
  • Dying

• There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Space

• Everybody told me that Taiwan is a very polite society and that people don't like gossip and scandals here. But they just pretend they don't like it. We have, by far, the biggest newspaper in Taiwan. They just buy it to read it at home.

  

  Jimmy Lai
  • People
  • Home
  • Gossip

• Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Society
  • Organization
  • Farmer

• A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live
  • Death
  • Simple

• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Up
  • World
  • Revenge

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