The Society Quotes

I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

We should wear whatever we think looks nice and wear it with confidence. That will put you in a good mood and I think it will lead to an abundant society

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.