Society quotes

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

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

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.