Society Quotes

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

~ John T. Flynn

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

~ Tim Wise

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

~ Robert J. Shiller

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

~ Matt Taibbi

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

~ Paddy Ashdown

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

~ John Locke

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

~ Pope Francis

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

~ Miriam Makeba

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

~ Glozell

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

~ Jessica Valenti

That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.

~ James Wan

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

~ Colin Angle

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

~ Jeff Bridges

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

~ Anna Kendrick

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

~ Jan Koum

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

~ Bertolt Brecht

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

~ Hillary Clinton

The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

~ Whitfield Diffie

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

~ Vincent Nichols

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.

~ Kim Jong-Un

Sports are a microcosm of society.

~ Billie Jean King

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

~ Jerry Reinsdorf

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

~ Rupert Murdoch

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

~ Howard Cosell

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

~ David Shields

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

~ Bill Nye

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

~ Jay Griffiths

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

~ Dave Barry

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

~ Noam Chomsky

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

~ Scott Weiland

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

~ Roy H. Williams

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

~ Seth Lloyd

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

~ Arvind Gupta

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

~ Kent Conrad

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

~ David Smith

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

~ Lloyd Kaufman