The Society Quotes

#1. Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

Robert Gilpin

#2. The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; ... the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.

James Madison

#3. People seek the society of others who are exciting, disconcerting and volatile, who are never the same from one moment to the next and usually change complexion completely.

Thomas Bernhard

#4. Don't let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

Max Anders

#6. The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Jack Kornfield

#7. Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Rajneesh

#8. The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

Sathya Sai Baba

#9. The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus

#10. Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Melanie Phillips

#11. Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

Laura Riding

#12. If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

Andrew Sullivan

#13. When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

Manny Montana

#14. Time is unpredictable, and I'm not going to stay in the society of bad people.

Unknown

#15. We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color ... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#17. Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. God made man, but man made the society we live in.

Janice Cantore

#19. Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

Thomas Keneally

#20. People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

Sandra Brown

#21. You can challenge the society; But can't the time

Harishankar Kaushik

#22. And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

Thomas Jefferson

#23. You have intuition, too. The Society says it doesn't really exist, but it does.

Ally Condie

#24. Away from the Society, from Xander, from my family, from the life I knew. Away from the boy who led us here, from the light that creeps across this land, turning the sky blue and the stone red, the light that could get us killed.

Ally Condie

#25. I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Stieg Larsson

#26. People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

Amish Tripathi

#27. -at least in the collective mind of the Society.

Ally Condie

#28. Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

Anita Silvey

#29. Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

Candice S. Miller

#30. Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

Suzanne La Follette

#31. The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Theodor Herzl

#32. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Thomas Browne

#33. The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Aristotle.

#34. Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live.

Crystal Kadakia

#35. Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

Robert Shea

#36. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Bryant McGill

#37. As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Annie Lennox

#38. Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Anthony Bourdain

#39. The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ... What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

John Ashcroft

#40. The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Bell Hooks

#41. True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#42. Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

Kate Braverman

#43. The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government ...

George Washington

#44. We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations.

Vishal Chipkar

#45. And but for the company of these little objects which I picked up here and there, when out walking, and which sometimes gave me the impression that they too needed me, I might have been reduced to the society of nice people or to the consolations of some religion or other, but I think not.

Samuel Beckett

#46. Violation Of The Law Of Universe Brings Devastation Results To The Society

Sunday Adelaja

#47. The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Romano Prodi

#48. The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

Peter Drucker

#49. We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

Christopher L. Hayes

#50. Every individual," wrote another enormously perceptive portrayer of ordinary life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "is part and parcel of a great picture of the society in which he lives and acts, and his life cannot be painted without reproducing the picture of the world he lived in.

Jack Larkin

#51. Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

Arthur Kemp

#52. By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.

Warren Beatty

#53. None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.

Simon Wiesenthal

#54. Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

Frances Trollope

#55. If you despise increase, you are a strange personality in the society

Sunday Adelaja

#56. The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Timothy Noah

#57. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice - the power of change, the essential function of life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#58. The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James Baldwin

#59. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

Anthony Carmona

#61. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

R.D. Laing

#62. God wants the church to become the initiator of the reformation and changes in the society

Sunday Adelaja

#63. If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Barbara Jordan

#64. The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

Ayn Rand

#65. The only strategy to protect and preserve a nation is to establish the golden rules and principles of the Kingdom of God in the society.

Sunday Adelaja

#66. Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Abu Bakr

#67. The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter the society or culture, the city or town, God has never lacked the power to work through available people to glorify his name.

Jim Cymbala

#68. Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

Thomas Hughes

#69. Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

Henry David Thoreau

#70. But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Annia Ciezadlo

#71. The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

Garry Kasparov

#72. The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

Malcolm X

#73. If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#74. Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

Gerry Harvey

#75. In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

Lynsey Addario

#76. We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

Warren Buffett

#77. On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#78. There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all.

Ally Condie

#79. All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

Aporva Kala

#80. I was tired of rewriting my opinion of the Society. I was tired of wondering what Rose would wish me to do. I was tired of constantly wondering if I had made the right choice, if I even had a choice, or if I was being manipulated at every turn.

Tarun Shanker

#81. Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

Genco Gulan

#82. The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#83. If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

Jesse Torrey

#84. To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity

Sunday Adelaja

#85. The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

Thom Yorke

#86. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

#87. Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.

George Washington

#88. All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

John Calvin

#89. If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.

Abhijit Naskar

#90. I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth.

Malcolm X

#91. We [Latinos] must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society.

Patricia Velasquez

#92. The first duty of the sovereign [is] that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, [which] can be performed only by means of a military force

Adam Smith

#93. From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#94. Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee

#95. The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

Kailash Satyarthi

#96. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali

#97. I was trying to find a way to you," Ky says. "I wanted to cross the plain and get back to the Society somehow. We took some things from the farmers' township for trade.

Ally Condie

#98. With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

John Strachan

#99. At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Rudolf Arnheim

#100. Christians have a real chance to change the society that is I darkness, to help every person see the light of God's love

Sunday Adelaja