Society Quotes

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Joe Biden

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Jane Austen

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Edwin Louis Cole

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Neil Armstrong

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

Jinato Hu

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

Warren Farrell

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Mitt Romney

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Michael Haneke

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Stephen Jay Gould

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

Sebastian Junger

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned.

Steve Maraboli

Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society.

Eric Parslow

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Todd Gitlin

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Benjamin Netanyahu

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

John le Carre