Society Quotes · Page 145

If the children of a group's founder are to take over that group, they need the endorsement of society.

— Lee Kun-hee

A society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness

— Anonymous

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

— John Ruskin

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

— Sasha Grey

“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

— Gary Hamel

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

— Taylor Hackford

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every…

— Edmund Burke

We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties…

— Chuka Umunna

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes…

— Jack Kingston

I thought we were getting more liberal as a society, more inclusive and I'm gutted racism has come back stronger with Brexit,…

— Dawn O'Porter

It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides…

— Chris Grayling

“[about a hat] You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How…

— Alice LeGrow

I remember when BLM and Stop Asian Hate and the Supreme Court rollback of Roe v. Wade happened, there kept being these…

— Ayo Edebiri

The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was…

— Jonathan Capehart

Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of…

— John Sentamu

In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a…

— Joshua Wong

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by…

— Eric Hoffer

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

— Kofi Annan

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what…

— Al Jourgensen

I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.

— Henry Sy

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have…

— Gong Li

To all the girls that think you're ugly because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly.

— Marilyn Monroe

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

— Neil Kinnock

Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

— Bill Shorten

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

— Peter Hitchens

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

— Isabel Allende

The mask that people wear in society are always more interesting than the person hidden behind it.

— Oscar Wilde

“Were all people who tried to help doomed to live outside society because others didn't understand them?”

— Jennifer Bohnhoff

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that…

— Michael Porter

Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

— Cesar Chavez

Society tells you home is where you grew up or where you settled, but nah. I have friends all over the world.…

— Amber Liu

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

— Raymond Chandler

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something…

— Martin Yan

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

— Ludwig von Mises

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

— Paul Krugman