Top 100 Quotes About Our Society
#1. We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
Nhat Hanh
#2. Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.
Batuhan Ibal
#3. We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
Armstrong Williams
#4. My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
Dan Marino
#5. It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
Victoria Osteen
#6. I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
Zachary Quinto
#7. Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick. It
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#8. We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.
Nelson Mandela
#9. We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan W. Watts
#10. Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.
Melissa Etheridge
#11. Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.
Vanna Bonta
#13. How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?
Alexander Shulgin
#14. There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.
Martin O'Malley
#15. My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
Orlan
#16. It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.
Jane Jacobs
#17. My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy Carter
#18. The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch
#19. I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
Mae Jemison
#21. I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.
David Miliband
#22. Maybe it is not the 'mad' people who should be fixed in order to function in our society, but our society that needs to be fixed so that we do not interfere with their function.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#23. I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
Alice Englert
#24. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.
Odin Zeus McGaffer
#25. Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.
Nelson Mandela
#26. I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.
Nancy Pearl
#27. We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.
Mitt Romney
#28. Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
Steve Chabot
#29. I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.
Joe Biden
#30. We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
David Ogden Stiers
#31. I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
Jerome Flynn
#32. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.
Michio Kaku
#33. Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
William J. Brennan
#34. Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.
Tim Soutphommasane
#35. 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
#37. I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.
George W. Bush
#38. It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.
David Limbaugh
#39. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
Edward Kennedy
#40. The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives
the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#41. In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
Major Owens
#42. To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life ... to beauty all is forgiven.
Muriel Barbery
#43. The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.
Bruce Schneier
#44. No elderly person should be like an "exile" in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.
Pope Francis
#45. But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
Rick Perry
#46. If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
Michael Moore
#47. She also knows full well that "shy" is a negative word in our society. Above all, do not shame her for her shyness.
Susan Cain
#48. Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
Gustav Heinemann
#49. Motherhood in our society means always being on the edge between two existences which rarely allow for any overlap.
Michelle Harrison
#50. We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.
Jean-Marc Barr
#51. I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.
Irakli Okruashvili
#52. Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
George Osborne
#53. My nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.
Elizabeth Peters
#54. The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#55. The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.
Theodore Kaczynski
#56. I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
Sara Blakely
#57. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
Paul Newman
#58. 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
#59. I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
Lynsey Addario
#60. That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.
Tim DeChristopher
#61. That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society post-capitalist.
Peter Drucker
#62. Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.
Seth Shostak
#63. You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
Tyne Daly
#64. Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.
William Keepin
#65. Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.
Jerry Vlasak
#66. In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job ... you are in substance saying to that man You have no right to exist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#67. People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Nelson Mandela
#68. I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]
Northrop Frye
#69. We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.
Janet E. Smith
#70. In our society, we no longer pride ourselves on being educated, knowledgable, well-read. We prefer, instead, the illusion of erudition.
Michael Perkins
#71. Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.
John G. Miller
#72. It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Winona Ryder
#73. Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
Lewis B. Smedes
#74. The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
Marilyn Vos Savant
#75. If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Larry Page
#76. Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.
Loraine Hutchins
#77. I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.
Alfie Kohn
#78. We must honor our worthiness in order to receive what we want. In our society we are conditioned to believe that we are not worthy, and that it is even selfish to want to be able to attract things into our lives.
Wayne Dyer
#79. There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#80. Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
Geoff Mulgan
#81. We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
Patch Adams
#82. Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
Jacob K. Javits
#83. Have we unwittingly exaggerated the importance of individuals succeeding within pre-existing structures of power, and thereby undermined King's call for a "complete restructuring" of our society? Have
Michelle Alexander
#84. Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
Mary Douglas
#85. We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Helen Thomas
#86. Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
Christiane Northrup
#87. Egoism ... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.
Peter Singer
#88. Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.
Eva Longoria
#89. There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if 'productivity' and/or 'usefulness' are the measures of human value, and - particularly for artists - this is deeply problematic. We shouldn't given in.
Tasha Golden
#90. I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
Janet Fitch
#91. Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
Mohsin Hamid
#92. Our society holds to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately it's all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness in God's presence.
Randy Alcorn
#93. Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.
Will Self
#94. I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.
Eli Roth
#95. One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction ...
Clay Shirky
#96. In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
Guy Debord
#97. American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.
Faye Wattleton
#98. Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
Alix Kates Shulman
#99. As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.
Seth Godin
#100. 20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.
Marian Keyes
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