This Society Quotes

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.