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.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

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.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

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 society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

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.

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.

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.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

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

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.

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

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

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

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

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

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.

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.