Society Quotes

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Lord Acton

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Rabindranath Tagore

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Alex Grey

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

Constance Baker Motley

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Daisaku Ikeda

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

Rick Perry

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Marilyn vos Savant

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.

James Hillman

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Bianca Jagger

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

Nathan Fillion

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Candace Bushnell

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Quincy Jones

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

Simon Mainwaring

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

William Shakespeare