Society quotes

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.