Top society Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of society quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of W. H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden
Collection: Society
Image of Matthew Arnold
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
- Matthew Arnold
Collection: Society
Image of bell hooks
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
- bell hooks
Collection: Society
Image of Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
- Thomas Hardy
Collection: Society
Image of James Dean
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
- James Dean
Collection: Society
Image of Colin Angle
It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
- Colin Angle
Collection: Society
Image of Anthony Bourdain
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: Society
Image of Martin Yan
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
- Martin Yan
Collection: Society
Image of Jonathan Sacks
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
- Jonathan Sacks
Collection: Society
Image of Vikrant Massey
Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.
- Vikrant Massey
Collection: Society
Image of Sun Ra
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
- Sun Ra
Collection: Society
Image of Edward Sapir
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
- Edward Sapir
Collection: Society
Image of Matt Letscher
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.
- Matt Letscher
Collection: Society
Image of Tom Frieden
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
- Tom Frieden
Collection: Society
Image of Megan Rapinoe
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.
- Megan Rapinoe
Collection: Society
Image of Storm Reid
I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you.
- Storm Reid
Collection: Society
Image of Joe Biden
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
- Joe Biden
Collection: Society
Image of Boyan Slat
For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.
- Boyan Slat
Collection: Society
Image of Mike Tyson
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Society
Image of Kenzo Tange
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
- Kenzo Tange
Collection: Society
Image of John Kasich
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
- John Kasich
Collection: Society
Image of Joseph A. Schumpeter
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Collection: Society
Image of George Soros
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
- George Soros
Collection: Society
Image of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Collection: Society
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Society
Image of Mark Manson
One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.
- Mark Manson
Collection: Society
Image of Matt Gonzalez
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
- Matt Gonzalez
Collection: Society
Image of Alex Haley
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
- Alex Haley
Collection: Society
Image of Frank Dillane
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.
- Frank Dillane
Collection: Society
Image of Anita Hill
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
- Anita Hill
Collection: Society
Image of Herman Kahn
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
- Herman Kahn
Collection: Society
Image of Henri Frederic Amiel
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Collection: Society
Image of Billie Jean King
Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Society
Image of Madeleine Albright
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
- Madeleine Albright
Collection: Society
Image of Octavia Spencer
I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
- Octavia Spencer
Collection: Society
Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Society
Image of Serj Tankian
If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
- Serj Tankian
Collection: Society
Image of Rutherford B. Hayes
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Collection: Society
Image of Nat Turner
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
- Nat Turner
Collection: Society
Image of Ben Rhodes
Where civil society thrives, governments operate with more transparency and accountability. This creates a tangible impact on the lives of everyday citizens.
- Ben Rhodes
Collection: Society
Image of Dave Barry
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Society
Image of Neil LaBute
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
- Neil LaBute
Collection: Society
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Society
Image of R. D. Laing
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.
- R. D. Laing
Collection: Society
Image of Brian Clough
Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.
- Brian Clough
Collection: Society
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Collection: Society
Image of Shweta Menon
I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.
- Shweta Menon
Collection: Society
Image of Antonin Scalia
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
- Antonin Scalia
Collection: Society
Image of MC Ren
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.
- MC Ren
Collection: Society
Image of Seal
I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.
- Seal
Collection: Society