Quotes about Society
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
— Desmond Tutu
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
— Justin Welby
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
— Joseph Campbell
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
— Thomas Jefferson
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
— Peter Drucker
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
— Dorothy Day
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
— Oscar Wilde
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
— St. Augustine
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
— Margaret Mead
The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel