1,004 Quotes Regarding Society


Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Edward Bond

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Edward Bond

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
Pauline Hanson

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Sargent Shriver

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
Roger Goodell

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
Eric Schmidt

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
Tadao Ando

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
Herman Kahn

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
Todd Gitlin

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev