Quotes about Society

"All over the world, independent and strong civil society - NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates - help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most - like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity."

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."

"To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen."

"As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here."

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings."

"My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that."

"If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow."

"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."

"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."

"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."

"Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas."

"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."

"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"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."

"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."

"A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument."

"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community."

"Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis."

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God."

"I think the first duty of society is justice."

"Deep-learning will transform every single industry. Healthcare and transportation will be transformed by deep-learning. I want to live in an AI-powered society. When anyone goes to see a doctor, I want AI to help that doctor provide higher quality and lower cost medical service. I want every five-year-old to have a personalised tutor."

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."

"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."

"As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population."