Society Quotes

"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"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

"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

"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

"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"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"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

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"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

"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

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

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

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

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"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

"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

"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"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

"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

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

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

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