Society Quotes

No emancipation without that of society.

Theodor Adorno

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Charles Horton Cooley

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Eric Schmidt

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert Bork

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Simone de Beauvoir

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Mark Zuckerberg

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

Emma Thompson

In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood that when you gave an order you gave it as comrade to comrade and not as superior to inferior. There were officers and NCOs, but there was no military rank in the ordinary sense; not titles, no badges, no heel-clicking and saluting. They had attempted to produce within the militias a sort of temporary working model of the classless society.

George Orwell

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Daisaku Ikeda

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Read

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kofi Annan

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Ken Kesey

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Hugh Hefner

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself

George Santayana