Top 100 Society Are Quotes
#1. The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain
#2. The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.
Max Anders
#3. Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.
Paul Tonko
#4. If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.
Jacques Maritain
#5. The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
Wadah Khanfar
#6. Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
David Grossman
#7. Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.
Valerie Solanas
#8. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues."
-from "Heart the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
#9. Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
Herbert Spencer
#10. Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#11. Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people
Cesar Hidalgo
#12. The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons
#13. Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence?
Vironika Tugaleva
#14. Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.
M.I.A.
#15. Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.
Maurice Levy
#16. The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#17. Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.
Wilhelm Reich
#18. The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.
Steve Maraboli
#19. Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.
Mo Ibrahim
#20. The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history.
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew Sistehood is powerful.
Bell Hooks
#22. Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel.
Garret Keizer
#23. A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.
Thomas Paine
#24. Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
James A. Baldwin
#25. It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.
Bryan Kest
#26. The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#27. Who can wonder at the attractiveness ... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
Marsilio Ficino
#28. The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose
only aim is to
see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors
Julia Quinn
#29. If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
Robert Bringhurst
#30. So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
Luis Gutierrez
#31. The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.
Samuel R. Delany
#32. [Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.
William J. Clinton
#33. All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police
Chris Patten
#34. Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections of aspects of society that one would like to see altered.
Peter Trudgill
#35. Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
#36. His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#38. These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.' The
Martin Cruz Smith
#39. Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
#40. Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.
Steve Maraboli
#41. The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
#43. 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
#44. There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.
Nelson Mandela
#45. The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
Ina May Gaskin
#46. Ah," Bridget said, flushing slightly. As the glib-tongued lout in question, she was currently on the receiving end of this facet of the habble's law. "I'm not sure everyone would agree with you. We're a civilized society, are we not?" Esterbrook blinked. "Since when, miss? We're a democracy.
Jim Butcher
#47. All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
Ingrid Newkirk
#48. The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
James Madison
#49. Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
Clara Zetkin
#51. The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.
George Carlin
#52. People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.
Gina Adel
#53. The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B.F. Skinner
#54. We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#55. We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"
Tim Berners-Lee
#56. I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
Ken MacLeod
#57. The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society.
Karl Marx
#58. The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
Myrtle Reed
#59. Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
Eli Roth
#60. The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Marquis De Custine
#61. You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.
Jon Jones
#62. The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#63. Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
August Strindberg
#64. As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.
Adrienne Clarkson
#65. What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
Andy Grove
#66. Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
James Connolly
#67. Studies show that the healthiest people in Western society are single women and married men - marriage, it seems, suits men more than women.
Emma Haughton
#68. Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.
Nizar Qabbani
#69. The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.
Marilyn Ferguson
#70. Basic decisions of our society are made through the expressed will of the people. That is why when we see these liberties threatened, instead of falling apart, our nation becomes unified and our democracies come together... in spite of our varied backgrounds and many racial strains.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#71. Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
Ayn Rand
#72. For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Oscar Wilde
#73. There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
David Simon
#74. The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
#75. Those who decide what's fit for society are uncomfortable because I'm different, but I'm uncomfortable because they are all the SAME.
Nicole D'Settemi
#76. In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.
Kofi Annan
#77. The most dangerous truth a Confessor knows is that the rules of society are just consensual hallucinations. Choosing to wake up from the dream means choosing to end your life.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#78. The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.
Marcel Proust
#79. The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. It's clear that other problems such as [ ... ] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.
Richard Stallman
#81. Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
Kenneth Clark
#82. The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.
Herbert Marcuse
#83. Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
John McGahern
#85. The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
Steve Maraboli
#86. Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.
Criss Jami
#87. We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.
Leonard Mlodinow
#88. The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, We stop here; do you stop also.
Julia Ward Howe
#89. The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.
Laura Schlessinger
#90. Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
Hanna Rosin
#91. The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
Mary McAleese
#92. The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
William Hazlitt
#93. Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
Thomas Sowell
#94. If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
Stephen King
#95. I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
Jimmy Carter
#96. All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
William Stanley Jevons
#97. The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
Thomas Jefferson
#98. If we look deeply at life, we realise that the benefits we receive from society are largely attributable to their location. Benefits are local to the areas that we live in: the roads we drive on, the stores we shop at, and the services we use.
Martin Adams
#99. Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
Noam Chomsky
#100. They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
Sara Sheridan
