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Famous Quotes
- The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Society
- The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Society
- The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
- James Hillman on Society
- The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
- James Connolly on Society
- The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster on Society
- The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
- Henrik Ibsen on Society
- The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
- Don DeLillo on Society
- Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
- Sarah Zettel on Society
- There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Society
- 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 on Society
- There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
- Ian MacKaye on Society
- There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti on Society
- There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
- Naguib Mahfouz on Society
- There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
- Catherine Deneuve on Society
- There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
- Anwar Sadat on Society
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela on Society
- There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
- William S. Burroughs on Society
- There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
- Mark Zuckerberg on Society
- There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
- Norman Douglas on Society
- There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Society
- There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
- Kofi Annan on Society
- There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
- Arlen Specter on Society
- There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
- Constance Baker Motley on Society
- There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies on Society
- There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
- Margaret Thatcher on Society
- There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
- Charles R. Swindoll on Society
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
- Simone Weil on Society
- There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.
- John McCarthy on Society
- There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
- Roland Barthes on Society
- There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
- George Byron on Society
- There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
- Benjamin Carson on Society
- There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- Eric Hoffer on Society
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
- Doris Lessing on Society
- There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
- Jacqueline Bisset on Society
- Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
- These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
- Herbert Read on Society
- Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
- Barbara Jordan on Society
- This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
- David Hume on Society
- This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
- Jack Kevorkian on Society
- This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
- Kevin Kelly on Society
- This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
- Marco Rubio on Society
- This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.
- Michael Bloomberg on Society
- Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
- Novak Djokovic on Society
- Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
- Brian Tracy on Society
- Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
- Bianca Jagger on Society
- Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
- Simon Mainwaring on Society
- Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
- To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Society
- 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 on Society
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