Ms Society Quotes

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

American society has gone completely into denial.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

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.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.