- Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
- Michael Haneke on Society
- Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan on Society
- Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
- Alexander McCall Smith on Society
- Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
- Jack Kingston on Society
- Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Society
- Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Society
- Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
- Dorothy Day on Society
- Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S. Truman on Society
- Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
- Delphine De Girardin on Society
- Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Society
- Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
- William Blackstone on Society
- Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
- Dirk Kempthorne on Society
- Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
- Rush Limbaugh on Society
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- Ludwig Von Mises on Society
- Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
- Robert Bork on Society
- Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
- Thomas Frank on Society
- Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost on Society
- Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
- Lester Bangs on Society
- Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
- Susan Sontag on Society
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden on Society
- Music is always a commentary on society.
- Frank Zappa on Society
- My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.
- Sandra Lee on Society
- My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
- John Le Carre on Society
- My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
- Dan Marino on Society
- My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
- William J. Clinton on Society
- My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
- George Soros on Society
- My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
- Sloane Crosley on Society
- My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
- John Woolman on Society
- My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
- Anna Deavere Smith on Society
- My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
- Samantha Morton on Society
- My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
- Anna Kendrick on Society
- My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
- Andrew Weil on Society
- My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon on Society
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
- Thomas Sowell on Society
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