This Society Quotes
Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.
The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.
When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.