Society Quotes

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

George McGovern

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bently

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Marlo Thomas

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

George Osborne

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Catherine Deneuve

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Doris Lessing

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Robert W. Service

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Stephen Vizinczey

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Shirley Manson

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

C.S. Lewis

As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don

Jane Elliot, speech at Wait Chap

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Lewis Thomas

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Paulo Coelho

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Oliver Tambo

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

Madeleine Albright

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.

George Soros

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Neale Donald Walsch

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

Elia Kazan