This Society Quotes

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.