Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Lasch

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

If we are going to have a sustainable, low-carbon society then we have to have low-carbon (supporting) citizens.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

J. B. Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Arthur Koestler

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Arthur Koestler

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Alfred Kazin

The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

Gunnar Myrdal

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Li Keqiang

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.

Ferdinand Marcos

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.