Quotes on Society

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

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

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I'm told I'm a statistic. I'm told that my young black sisters are disease-ridden... but we are greater than what society tells us we are.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.