Society Quotes · Page 187

Marriage isn't about two people; it is the basis for the family. That's why it's unique, and therefore I think society can…

— Ann Widdecombe

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought…

— Thomas Pogge

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society -…

— Ali Babacan

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive…

— Noam Chomsky

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom…

— Michel de Montaigne

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't…

— Milton Friedman

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may…

— John Strachan

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the…

— Mitch Kapor

The People's Response Act will create grant funding for the grassroots and community organizations that are doing the work to address housing,…

— Cori Bush

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't…

— Jackson Browne

I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is…

— Forest Whitaker

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people…

— Eugene Ionesco

If we manage to remove the state enough for society to flourish, we will have succeeded because free economic activity will lead…

— Javier Milei

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of…

— Tony Judt

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally…

— John Stuart Mill

Humans exist in social groups and rely on social signals to make the group work - signals that are symbolic, and appear…

— Zeynep Tufekci

“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead…

— Bob Dylan

Here, from my end, we've been talking about equal opportunity, right, through the years? I think it's been loud and clear that…

— Alex Cora

Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier - a place where law…

— Ben Domenech

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and…

— Jami Attenberg

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…

— Florence Nightingale

While the problems facing the country are huge, it is in times of great disruption that we can make the most important…

— Jo Swinson

No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring…

— Kevin de Leon

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are…

— Dennis Kucinich

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied…

— Zygmunt Bauman

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to…

— Jonas Gahr Store

Does any woman really just come in and say, 'I'm a plus-size woman?' Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe as a…

— Ashley Graham

How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of…

— Azim Premji

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,…

— Jules Verne

“The commonwealth is sick of their own choice; Their over-greedy love has surfeited. An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth…

— William Shakespeare

“The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just…

— George MacDonald

Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I'm watching 'Night…

— Ad-Rock

To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be…

— Steve Allen

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer…

— John Berger

I think that communalism is the cancer of our society, and if we have to protect the humanity and the unity and…

— Mamata Banerjee

“A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on…

— Michel Faber

Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we…

— Ram Gopal Varma

And even when I was 18, 19, 20 in college, I did a couple of plays in the drama society, I didn't…

— Eoin Macken