Our Society Quotes

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.