This Society Quotes
As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.
The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.
Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.
Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.
When we have a new heart, we become new people, and then we have a new society, then we have a new nation.
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.
Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.
Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.
Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.
We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
