Society Quotes - Page 2

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

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.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.