Society Quotes

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Let those who like society better have it.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

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

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.