Society Quotes

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Steven Seagal

You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.

Shailene Woodley

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Mark Twain

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Jim Carrey

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

Dirk Kempthorne

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Edward Abbey

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baldwin Spencer

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Christopher Lasch

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Mike Tyson

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Jane Austen

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness

Samuel Johnson

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

David Cameron

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

J. Michael Straczynski

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Lee R. Raymond

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

Bashar al-Assad