Our society Quotes · Page 7

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

— Carter Burwell

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

— Barbara Deming

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

— Gordon Brown

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual…

— Marina Abramovic

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

— Billy Graham

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

— Ken MacLeod

If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more…

— Bruce H. Lipton

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

— Lee Greenwood

The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by…

— Bob Schwartz

The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white…

— Solomon Asch

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans…

— Tipper Gore

Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members…

— Walter E. Williams

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in…

— Chester Brown

Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic…

— Irving Fisher

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are.…

— Jenny McCarthy

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on…

— Ted Koppel

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

— Noam Chomsky

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality,…

— Carl Bernstein

We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize…

— Dale Jamieson

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be…

— Barack Obama

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than…

— George Bernard Shaw

A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and…

— Sam Harris

I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could…

— Nancy Pearl

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

— Saul Bellow

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

— D. H. Lawrence

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

— Raven-Symone

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks…

— Steven Pinker

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

— Alan AtKisson

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

— Rajiv Gandhi

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

— Ray Bradbury

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We…

— Rick Santelli

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

— Doris Lessing

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

— Daniel Botkin

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

— Ted Turner

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

— Jim DeRogatis

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

— R. D. Laing

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

— Lance Secretan

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

— Man Ray

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

— Evelyn Cunningham