Society Quotes

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality"

John Locke, Philosopher

"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it"

William Blackstone, Judge

"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"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"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"I learned that no child is ever lost. They may be lost to their families, lost to society, but they are never lost to themselves"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality"

Lord Acton, Historian

"The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"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"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"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, Educator

"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

"What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism"

Rand Paul, Politician

"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Society is unity in diversity"

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

"Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul"

Lee Atwater, Politician

"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

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

Kent Conrad, Politician

"I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out"

Judith Light, Actress

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