Top 1000 Society Quotes & Sayings

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

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

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.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.

The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.