Society Quotes · Page 127

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

— Walter Weyl

Society is moving so fast, at some point it's good to make up your mind about where you're really coming from.

— Susan Tedeschi

I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.

— Tzipi Livni

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

— Saina Nehwal

Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less…

— Deeyah Khan

“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.”

— Patience Johnson

“[...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality”

— Marilyn Manson

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

— Mo Ibrahim

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

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

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and…

— Vaclav Smil

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to…

— Grover Cleveland

Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able…

— Masha Gessen

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy…

— Terry Pratchett

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and…

— Matt Taibbi

Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the…

— Rajneesh

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles…

— Susan Sontag

“It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent…

— Hermann Hesse

The whole world wants you to be miserable. It wants you to put your head down, sigh to yourself and give up…

— Johnneil Bertrand

For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely…

— Karl Hess

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…

— John Polkinghorne

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't…

— Marie Lu

“When walking into a room, worry not. Everyone else is afraid. People are scared of people who are scared of people.”

— Karl Kristian Flores

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

— Herbert Marcuse

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being…

— Matthew Shultz

Many Canadians rightly fear the repercussions of Trudeau transforming Canada into a cashless society.

— Leslyn Lewis

When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

— Wadada Leo Smith

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

— Philip Zimbardo

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

— Aldous Huxley

I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just…

— Matthew Heineman

I think that there's still a lot of prejudice going on. I don't really think it's only an issue of football. I…

— Clarence Seedorf

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

— Billy Graham

We are a traditional sport in an innovative society, and so trying to make change is always a task.

— Katrina Adams

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

— Judith Martin

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

As a community, as a group of people as a society, Asian Americans have not always been visible, but we've always been…

— Tamlyn Tomita