Our society Quotes · Page 6

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

— John Wooden

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic…

— Jim Hightower

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

— Albert Camus

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

— Sepp Blatter

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

— George W. Bush

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

— Patch Adams

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

— Marina Abramovic

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

— Timothy Radcliffe

I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look…

— Paul Haggis

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use…

— David Dinkins

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso…

— Will Self

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our…

— Thurgood Marshall

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the…

— Anonymous

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the…

— Joseph Campbell

Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that…

— Vaclav Havel

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places…

— Bruce Schneier

Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him…

— Valerie Solanas

We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't…

— David Gerrold

Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those…

— Ronald Reagan

The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the…

— Israel Shamir

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that…

— William O. Douglas

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little…

— Dean Kamen

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect…

— P. M. Forni

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with…

— Michelle Alexander

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

— Keith Ellison

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

— Okky Madasari

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our…

— Warren E. Burger

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

— John Madden

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

— Barbra Streisand

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

— Charlton Heston

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

— Charles R. Swindoll

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

— Polykarp Kusch

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

— Sara Blakely

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

— Kevin Kelly

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

— Warren Farrell

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy…

— Philip Kaufman

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

— Nelson Mandela

The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.

— Nancy Pelosi

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

— Gary Yourofsky