Society quotes

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

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

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

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

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.