Society Quotes

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

~ Jim Rohn

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

~ John Stuart Mill

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

~ Elton Gallegly

We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

~ Samora Machel

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

~ Alan Kay

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

~ Christian De Duve

Pregnant women who are in places where Zika is spreading should do everything they can to avoid mosquito bites. And we, as a society, need to do everything we can to control Zika. That means learning more about it; that means controlling mosquitoes more effectively. That means achieving a vaccine.

~ Tom Frieden

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

~ Neil Jordan

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

~ Brendan Behan

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

~ Cherie Blair

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

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

~ Robert Patterson

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

~ Voltaire

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

~ Émile Durkheim

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

~ Joyce Meyer

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

~ Émile Durkheim

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

~ Ulrich Beck

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

~ Kit Williams

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

~ Diane Paulus

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

~ Barry O'farrell

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

~ Huston Smith

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

~ Yehuda Berg

Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.

~ Shiv Nadar

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

~ Denis Diderot

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

~ Karen Armstrong

The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

~ Fatema Mernissi

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

~ Trevor Phillips

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

~ Ronald Reagan

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

~ Q'orianka Kilcher

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

~ Robert Kennedy

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

~ Margaret Thatcher

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

~ Nelson Mandela

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

~ Angela Davis

Women are the real architects of society.

~ Cher