- Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
- Keith O'Brien on Society
- Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Society
- Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
- David Bohm on Society
- Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
- Ajay Devgan on Society
- Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
- Haruki Murakami on Society
- Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
- Charles Kuralt on Society
- So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
- Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Society
- Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
- B. F. Skinner on Society
- Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
- Honore De Balzac on Society
- Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- Lin Yutang on Society
- Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
- Edmund Burke on Society
- Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
- Evelyn Glennie on Society
- Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
- Bertolt Brecht on Society
- Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Society
- Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
- Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
- Herbert Spencer on Society
- Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
- Oscar Wilde on Society
- Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- George Orwell on Society
- Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
- Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
- Jose Saramago on Society
- Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin on Society
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine on Society
- Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
- Victor Hugo on Society
- Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Society
- Society is at odds with itself.
- Clint Eastwood on Society
- Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
- Hugh Kingsmill on Society
- Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
- Nicolas Chamfort on Society
- Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
- Edward Abbey on Society
- Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
- George Santayana on Society
- Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
- Emile M. Cioran on Society
- Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
- Lord Byron on Society
- Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
- Randolph Bourne on Society
- Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
- Charles De Secondat on Society
- Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
- Henri Frederic Amiel on Society
- Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
- Marilyn Vos Savant on Society
- Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
- John Major on Society
- Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
- Kurt Russell on Society
- Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Society
- Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
- James Russell Lowell on Society
- Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
- Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
- Martin Yan on Society
- Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
- John W. Gardner on Society
- Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.
- Bryan Cranston on Society
- Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
- Judi Dench on Society
- Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
- Johnny Rotten on Society
- Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Billie Jean King on Society
- Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
- Jonathan Sacks on Society
- Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Society
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