Society Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"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

"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

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

Judith Light, Actress

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative"

Eugene McCarthy, Politician

"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

"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

Benjamin Jowett, Theologian

"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

"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

"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

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"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

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