Society Quotes

We talk about sanctity of life, yet we live in a society that aborts babies. There can't be anything more horrendous.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

One of the great conundrums in philanthropy globally is that the way wealth creation happens itself often creates the inequities in society.

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Without a holistic care infrastructure to support us, our economy and society simply cannot thrive.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Wildlife crime goes well beyond just a threat to endangered species but also has impacts on our society, economy and security. It undermines efforts to uphold the rule of law, acts as an agent for corruption, creates a barrier to development and fuels global instability.

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.