Society Quotes

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heav

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

We've become a plastic society.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.