1,004 Quotes Regarding Society


I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson Mandela

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Nelson Mandela

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack Obama

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

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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.
Robert Kennedy

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca