Society Quotes · Page 119

Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

— Wayne Dyer

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

— Lewis B. Smedes

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

— Ashley Graham

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.

— Tony Evans

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may…

— David Antin

“The pulpit is beautifully furnished and bright But it's rotted in places not seen by the light”

— Justin Wetch

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed…

— Erich Fromm

It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective,…

— Jiang Wen

Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and…

— Gina Torres

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and…

— Norman Finkelstein

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until…

— Barry Levinson

A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence…

— Jamelle Bouie

We're always thinking of different things to be on the cutting edge of what's entertaining or what's hot on Twitter or social…

— Kofi Kingston

Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the…

— George Soros

“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals…

— Seth Shostak

“In a world where critical thinking skills are almost wholly absent, repetition effectively leapfrogs the cognitive portion of the brain. It helps…

— Laura Bynum

“Laila could picture the flow of traffic all around her. From above, she watched the cars move along in streams like all…

— Cliff Jones Jr

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this…

— Bertrand Russell

The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of…

— Anonymous

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the…

— Eduardo Paes

“Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

Reflecting on defeat is a conditioned response. Children don't know how to do this until society teaches them that powerful word -…

— Ruben Papian

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

— John Adams

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

— Nita Ambani

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

— Jared Polis

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top…

— Paul Hawken

“in modern society, there are two types of people: those who get a good job, and those who have to get a…

— Ryan Roy

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

— Ulrika Jonsson

We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.

— Andrew Yang

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

— Anonymous

“Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

— Blase J. Cupich

We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits…

— Justin Trudeau