Society Quotes

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

George Eliot

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

Serj Tankian

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Simon Mainwaring

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Roy L. Smith

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Jacques Verges

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.

Lin Yutang

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Valerie Solanas

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Orson Scott Card

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Audre Lorde

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Jonathan Sacks

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James Baldwin

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

James Baldwin

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

Jesse Owens

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Robert Owen