Top 1000 Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

In a very general way, our society has fallen out of love with the skilled trades. Part of the problem is a myriad of myths and misperceptions that surround the jobs themselves, but the biggest cause is our stubborn belief that a four-year degree is the best path for the most people.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Protests have a value in society that I don't think you can quantify.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear - return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

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.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

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

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

When you can analyze situations and figure out what's best for you, based on you and not some preconceived notion of what society expects, then nothing is a threat.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.