Quotes on Society

Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.