Society Quotes - page 2

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. (Stephen Harper)
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. View quote
Harriet Martineau
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. View quote
George Orwell
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. View quote
Henry Thomas Buckle
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. View quote
Jean Cocteau
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. View quote
John Lennon
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. View quote
Ayn Rand
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal