Quotes on Society

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.

In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that they must hate one another. The Polish authorities, however, have made the division of Poles their primary task.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

Justice is the most important thing. In a plural society like Malaysia, you cannot have two laws - one law for the Muslim, one law for the non-Muslim.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.