Society Quotes · Page 137

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

— Georg Brandes

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Everyone in the world, regardless if they're Muslim or not, does not have to adhere to the label society slaps on you.

— Mustafa Ali

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.”

— William Howard Taft

In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.

— Lubna Olayan

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.

— Sakyong Mipham

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral…

— Honore De Balzac

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education…

— Paulo Freire

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is…

— Matt Ridley

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being…

— Michael Schur

We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way…

— Maxime Bernier

“Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and…

— Germany Kent

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was…

— Abbe Pierre

“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies…

— Edward Abbey

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself,…

— Hozier

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and…

— Ali Sina

“But fairness is not the only, or even the most important, consideration in law: the law is not always fair. Contracts are…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Society itself was a lonelier place. As a species, we had always been close to nature; from our days as hunter-gatherers to…

— David Grimm

“Many of the great economic masters, though they had originally favored radio-bliss in moderation as an opiate for the discontented workers, now…

— Olaf Stapledon

“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical…

— Karl Kristian Flores

The idea that keeps reappearing in the films I've made is this question about the individual versus the person in a community,…

— Kelly Reichardt

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

— Clara Zetkin

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

— Michael D. Higgins

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

— Richard King

COVID is part of our society. Wasn't caused by football or caused by sports.

— Jim Harbaugh

“To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean…

— Petek Kabakci

“you are not a product of society, you are a product of your choices, and decisions…you set the direction of your life,…

— Rick Ferreira

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are…

— Owsley Stanley

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

— Jacob Burckhardt

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement…

— Robin Leach

“Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

— Billy Graham

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

— Joseph Stalin

“Just as graphite and diamonds have the same composition, that which seems quite obvious, may also not be”

— Frederico Rochaferreira

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

— John Jay Chapman

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

— Monty Williams

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

— Margaret Thatcher