Society Quotes - page 5

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? (Honoré de Balzac)
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
Rene Cassin
If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
Robert Sternberg
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.
Samuel R. Delany
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Thom Mayne
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Ulrich Beck
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Gregory Corso
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
John Boyd Orr
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
Emily Greene Balch
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. (Christian Lous Lange)
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
Buckminster Fuller
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.
Germaine Greer
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.
Charles Krauthammer
If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.
Leymah Gbowee
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
John Adams
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. (John Lennon)
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Thomas Paine
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
William Hazlitt