Society Quotes

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.

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

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

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.

I want a society free of human trafficking

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.