Society Quotes

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear - return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first.

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.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Everybody, not just stars, should take up the responsibility of giving back to society. It doesn't matter how much you give, but what really matters is if you are willing to give something.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.