Society Quotes
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In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they are Muslims, practicing Muslims, they won't be accepted in Quebec society.
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Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
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Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society. (p. 271)
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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
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If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
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Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
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The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
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... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
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We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
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Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
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In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
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There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
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Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
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I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.
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I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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There are only about four hundred people in New York society.
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I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.
