Our society Quotes · Page 8

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

— R. D. Laing

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

— Daniel Botkin

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

— Jim DeRogatis

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

— Ted Turner

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

— Edward Kennedy

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to…

— Charlize Theron

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

— Muhammad Ali

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against…

— Tariq Ramadan

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I…

— Rand Paul

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business…

— Jared Diamond

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of…

— Howard Cosell

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will…

— Jim DeMint

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom,…

— Neil Strauss

In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to…

— Rush Limbaugh

Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into…

— William J. Clinton

Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought…

— Annie Lobert

And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that…

— Naomi Klein

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen…

— Philip K. Dick

If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get…

— Marianne Williamson

I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood.…

— Ronald Reagan

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

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised:

— William Shakespeare

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is…

— Cornel West

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

— Pope Francis

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

— Marco Rubio

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

— Herb Kohl

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

— Guillermo del Toro

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

— George Osborne

It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze…

— Bill McKibben

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

— Tim Soutphommasane

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles,…

— James Hillman

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

— Richard Dawkins

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

— Robin Lim

I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

— Bruno Monguzzi

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can…

— Liberace

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

— Dorothy Fields

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

— Andrew Aydin