Society quotes

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society, ' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots, ' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.