Society quotes

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?