Society Quotes · Page 77

In terms of society, we need positive influences to imbue stronger people - MMA doesn't bring anything to the table for that.

— Rickson Gracie

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

— Georges Bernanos

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

— Evelyn Glennie

Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a…

— Blase J. Cupich

Our reforms to criminal record disclosure will benefit ex-offenders, but there will a broader, more significant payoff for everyone in society.

— David Gauke

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled…

— Heinz Galinski

I'm never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids…

— Andrew Gillum

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered…

— Andrej Pejic

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern…

— Ludwig von Mises

“I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that…

— Erich Fromm

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our…

— Gwen Moore

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they…

— Derek Bok

I see people all the time today, and they really don't care if their doctor is of Pakistani origin; what they care…

— Sajid Javid

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.…

— Stendhal

I have always been a fan of Mahesh Manjrekar's work. I like the way he tells his stories. He manages to focus…

— Shruti Haasan

“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in…

— Joan Smith

“Events. Events in response to other events. Think about it. Nothing since the big bang has happened without a reason. And even…

— Laleh Khadivi

“Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature. - Yes; it's a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him…

— Arthur Koestler

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem…

— Nathaniel Branden

everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization…

— Carroll Quigley

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of…

— Walker Percy

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

— Tom Harrell

New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.

— John McDonnell

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

— Valerie Solanas

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand…

— Ann Landers

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment.

— Paulo Coelho

“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'. These are called true stories.”

— Moonshine Noire

“Society is nothing more than people cooperating with other people they'd much rather murder.”

— David Wong

“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your…

— Sunday Adelaja

Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders…

— Kirsten Powers

Society is made up of two classes those who get more than they earn and those earn more than they get.

— Vikrant Parsai

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

— Robert M. Hensel

“At the same time that we see a massive deployment of wireless radiation, we see the most violent attacks on modern society.”

— Steven Magee

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

— Honore de Balzac

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

— Sara Blakely