Society Quotes · Page 139

A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

— Munira Mirza

“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.”

— Oswald Spengler

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

— Maxime Bernier

Society is held together by duct tape and a lot of these fragile mechanisms are starting to break down. I have found…

— Tim Dillon

I just try to fit into society the best I can. Be unobtrusive, be smooth. I don't want to hurt anybody, or…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Life is tough, but you must be tougher. The more you care, the more you have to lose, don't let society define…

— Anonymous

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

— Matteo Salvini

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

— Jerry Garcia

“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other…

— Osamu Dazai

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that…

— Mark Skousen

“This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just…

— Hope Jahren

Crohn's doesn't define who you are. You are a human being; you are special and a great addition to society. Crohn's is…

— Mike McCready

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor…

— Warren Farrell

I'm not going to pretend that I'm something I'm not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have…

— Tulisa

There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these…

— Martin Luther

“There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political…

— Joe Bageant

“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create…

— Jeffrey Fischer

“Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and…

— Ernst Jünger

If I can try to be as normal as possible and show there's nothing to fear - either on film or day…

— Adam Pearson

As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but…

— Tom Brokaw

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing…

— Charles Bukowski

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

— Helen Caldicott

“A society that does not make room for imperfection can never be a happy society.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

— Yoshihiko Noda

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

— George Orwell

Dear insecure girls everywhere, you're not ugly, society is. Sincerely, The truth.

— Anonymous

Today's society limits us to see outside apperance only. But it takes more than your eyes to see deep inside of a…

— Ruben Papian

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

— George MacDonald

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

— Anonymous

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided…

— Robin DiAngelo

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

— G B Stern

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

— Ludwig von Mises

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

— Dale Murphy

I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

— Douglas Coupland

What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes?…

— Tracy Chapman

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

— K. D. Lang