- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
- Noam Chomsky on Society
- In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Society
- In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
- Friedrich Schiller on Society
- In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
- Carl Sandburg on Society
- 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 on Society
- In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
- Curt Schilling on Society
- In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
- Irving Babbitt on Society
- Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi on Society
- Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
- Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
- E. O. Wilson on Society
- Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
- Tim Berners-Lee on Society
- Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
- John Naisbitt on Society
- Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Society
- It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
- Roy H. Williams on Society
- It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
- Herbert Read on Society
- It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
- James Earl Jones on Society
- 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 on Society
- It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
- Herbert Read on Society
- It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Thor Heyerdahl on Society
- It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
- Isaac Asimov on Society
- 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 Kubler-Ross on Society
- It is good for society to have this introspection.
- Jacques Verges on Society
- It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
- William Makepeace Thackeray on Society
- It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
- Barbara Boxer on Society
- It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
- Murray Rothbard on Society
- It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Society
- It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society
- It is not a fragrant world.
- Raymond Chandler on Society
- It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Society
- It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
- William Hague on Society
- It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
- Simon Mainwaring on Society
- It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
- Baldwin Spencer on Society
- 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 on Society
- It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
- Jacques Barzun on Society
- It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
- Alexander McCall Smith on Society
- It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
- Johnny Rotten on Society
- It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
- It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
- Martha Plimpton on Society
- It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society
- It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
- Jessica Simpson on Society
- It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
- Julia Roberts on Society
- It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
- David Mamet on Society
- It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
- Julie Burchill on Society
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