Society Quotes

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

"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

"Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded"

Susan George, Activist

"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

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

Kent Conrad, Politician

"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society"

Judith Martin, Author

"The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers"

Kevin Smith, Director

"Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Society lives by faith, and develops by science"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"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"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman