The Society Quotes

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

We rise by lifting others.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

No social stability without individual stability.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

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 fetus is the property of the entire society.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.