Society Quotes

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

You can't put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.