Societies Quotes

Most societies die of suicide, not attack.

— Rush Limbaugh

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

— Asne Seierstad

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

— Anais Nin

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

— Mal Fletcher

“Adivasi societies are not fossilized societies.”

— Romila Thapar

All societies end up wearing masks.

— Jean Baudrillard

All societies are historical.

— Raymond Queneau

Societies depend on agreed rules.

— John Maynard Smith

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

— Elliott Abrams

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

— Gaspar Noe

Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies.

— Maimouna Doucoure

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

— Natan Sharansky

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

— Peter Eisenman

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

— Geoff Mulgan

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

— Bret Stephens

Advertising is found in societies which have passed the point of satisfying the basic animal needs.

— Marion Harper Jr

Seasteads are man-made islands that float permanently on the ocean with any measure of a political autonomy. They would essentially be startup…

— Joe Quirk

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

— Anonymous

“human societies always define themselves by their narrowest possible interests.That they are exclusive not inclusive.”

— Joel Shepherd

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something…

— Yani Tseng

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or…

— Plato

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one…

— F. Sionil Jose

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of…

— Eric Schmidt

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in…

— Thomas Hobbes

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies…

— Ivan Krastev

Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products…

— John Redwood

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the…

— Paul Johnson

Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to…

— Dennis C. Blair

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not…

— Douglas Feith

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society.…

— Tariq Ramadan

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The…

— James Howard Kunstler

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out…

— Teju Cole

“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on…

— Kenneth Clark

“The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world…

— G.K. Chesterton

“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something that is beneficial to…

— C. JoyBell C

“For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to…

— Sunday Adelaja

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

— James Howard Kunstler

“Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.”

— Tony Judt

Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

— Mo Ibrahim