Society Quotes

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

The Medical Society of Sedgwick County, the Kansas Hospital Association and doctors have really done some remarkable work on wellness-related issues.

~ Mike Pompeo

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

~ Paul Farmer

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

~ Theodore Sturgeon

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

~ John Cameron

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

~ Samuel Wilson

I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.

~ Ciara Bravo

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

~ Martin Luther King

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

~ Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

~ Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

~ Henrik Ibsen

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

~ Johnny Depp

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

~ Rollo May

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

~ William Blackstone

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

~ John Stuart Mill

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

~ Judith Light

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

~ Rand Paul

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

~ Jerry Hall

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

~ Harold Pinter

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

~ Daniel Dennett

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

~ John Adams

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

~ Patch Adams

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

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

~ Karl Marx

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

~ Matthew Quick

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

~ Irwin Redlener

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

~ David Harsanyi

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

~ Noam Chomsky

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

~ Lauryn Hill

Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

~ Ellen Malcolm

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.

~ Frans De Waal

When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

~ Anna Akana

Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.

~ Maajid Nawaz

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

~ John Lydon

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

~ Anthony Fauci

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

~ Montel Williams