Society Quotes

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

I feel like there's a tremendous amount of pressure that society and the Internet put on people to look or be perfect.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.