Society Quotes · Page 84

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down…

— Mark Van Doren

I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

— Sinead Burke

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

— Gore Vidal

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

— Eric Sevareid

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

— Alan Cohen

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in…

— Andrew Haigh

Speaking freely can give you the basic rights of expressing your views and what you want to say without the fear of…

— Saswata Chatterjee

When we engage in the critical decisions about our nation's future budgets, I want progressive voices at the table to argue that…

— Dick Durbin

Many, many people - many parents feel that their decisions are, maybe not, great decisions. Every parent has that, you know, parent…

— Kate Gosselin

But the key thing was that I knew of no other contrast between Wolverine as we understood him and Logan than you…

— Chris Claremont

My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His…

— Kumar Mangalam Birla

“I encourage you to cultivate your curiosity and discover how your cultural lens on the world can influence your interactions with people…

— Gaiti Rabbani

Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young…

— Pramila Jayapal

Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most…

— Lewis F. Powell, Jr

The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from…

— Bob Hawke

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the…

— William James

No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been…

— Walter Russell

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind…

— Eric Hoffer

If we cannot share aspects of our secret work with the public, we should do so with their elected representatives. For CIA…

— Gina Haspel

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive…

— Charles Hamilton Houston

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for…

— Zola Jesus

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be…

— Paul Lazarsfeld

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains…

— J. D. Vance

“Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.”

— Mike Foster

President Obama and I both believe we don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.

— John F. Kerry

“The illusion of safety that the law-and-order machinery uphold, was the cornerstone of any society.”

— Anonymous

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

— John Zerzan

“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face.…

— Trevor Noah

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

— Stanley Marion Garn

We must not forget that culture is the key tool to make society advance and defeat all forms of radicalism.

— Paolo Gentiloni

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very…

— Frans Lanting

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I just hope that people, women specifically, embrace that side of themselves that maybe is a little nuts or that society tells…

— Jenny Mollen

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

— Bobby Seale

While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more diversified capitalist society.

— Anthony Scaramucci

If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a…

— Steph McGovern