Top Society Quotes

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those...

Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the unce...

Society Definition

(n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

(n.) Connection; participation; partnership.

(n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

(n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

(n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with o...

The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society

Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

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 Nati...

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises fo...

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.