Society Quotes

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Society is unity in diversity.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.