Society Quotes

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.

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.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.