Society Quotes

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.

~ Andy Biersack

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

~ Dorothy Day

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

~ Paul Sweeney

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

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

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

~ Antonin Scalia

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 Kübler-Ross

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

~ Carter Burwell

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

~ Mao Zedong

I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

~ Conor Oberst

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

~ Clara Zetkin

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

~ Jeff Nichols

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

~ Sarah Gavron

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

~ Thomas Mann

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

~ Zachary Quinto

This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

~ Tariq Ramadan

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.

~ Michael Korda

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

~ Paul Martin

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

~ Michael Moore

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

~ Marjane Satrapi

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

~ Lupe Fiasco

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

~ Mitchell Baker

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

~ Pim Fortuyn

I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.

~ Adrienne Mayor

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

~ Sara Sheridan

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

~ Charles De Secondat

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

~ Danica Mckellar

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

~ Matthew Vaughn

Music is always a commentary on society.

~ Frank Zappa

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

~ Sonny Rollins

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

~ Naveen Jain

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

~ Orson Welles

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

~ Erich Fromm

The happiness of society is the end of government.

~ John Adams