3 December 2020 Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
3 December 2020 George Osborne A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
3 December 2020 Naomi Wolf Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
3 December 2020 Herschel Walker 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.
3 December 2020 A. Whitney Brown I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
3 December 2020 Mary Baker Eddy Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
3 December 2020 Peter L. Berger But we don’t have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
3 December 2020 Michael Haneke Drama lives on conflict. If you’re trying to deal with social issues seriously, there’s no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson 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.
3 December 2020 Orson Welles The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
3 December 2020 Michel Foucault What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
3 December 2020 David Mamet The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
3 December 2020 Elia Kazan The belief that the good in American society will finally win out… I don’t believe any more.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
3 December 2020 Ramsey Clark There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
3 December 2020 Eric Schmidt I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
3 December 2020 George Mason Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
3 December 2020 Hu Shih Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
3 December 2020 James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Schiller In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
