This Society Quotes

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We rise by lifting others.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.