Society Quotes - Page 15

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

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.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.