Society Quotes
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
Prince Andrew
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An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology, society, economy, and institutions.
Peter Drucker
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Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.
Daniel Defoe
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The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen
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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
Kenneth Grahame
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Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
Frances Beinecke
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We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.
Malcolm X
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On Philadelphia society: The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties - the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.
Alice-Leone Moats
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
Rachel Kushner
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We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
Baba Kalyani
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A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
George Orwell
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
Nancy A. Collins
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A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority-whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional-rather than an accident of timing or geography.
Jeffrey Sachs
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It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
Paulo Freire
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We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.
Betsy DeVos
