Society Quotes
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I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
Jeremy Lin
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.
Brad Sherman
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
Charlie Brooker
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
Elizabeth Thornton
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All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society.
Andrew Yan
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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
Oscar Wilde
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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
Margaret Millar
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Obviously, off the court, he's had some issues. He would be the first to say, 'Why? Why did I do that?' But one, his players graduate; two, they learn how to be men; and three, they learn how to contribute in life. Look at all those Indiana graduates contributing to society.
Dick Vitale
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Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Keith Olbermann
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No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
H. Bentley Glass
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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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Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
Ramez Naam
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.
Pierre Nanterme
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All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
Laeta Kalogridis
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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain
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One of my fondest memories growing up in Rwanda was seeing everyone participating in community-building activities. This happened every Saturday at the end of month. People work together in cleaning streets, planting trees, and take care of each other by facilitating productive conversations and actions that are beneficial for the society.
Clemantine Wamariya
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In such a globalised world society there would be no place for war, for hegemonistic controls or cut-throat competition. India, is a country that has wrested its independence from one of the mightiest empires on earth by the method of non-violence. It is not the desire of this nation to solve such problems as we have with our neighbours by the use of force. With Pakistan, which was carved out of our body-politic, it was our desire to have friendly co-operation in a hundred ways after partition. But if India`s integrity and independence is threatened, it becomes the duty of the Indian State, -- its duty to the one-billion people who inhabit our vast land -- to defend them with all the resources and strength at its disposal...
K. R. Narayanan
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That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.
Mary Hansen
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Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks
