Society quotes

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

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

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.