“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.”
Society is the agreement we all live under without ever signing a contract. These quotes examine culture, community, inequality, progress, and the ongoing negotiation between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”
“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.”
“I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.”
“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.”
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“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.”
“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”
“Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.”
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.”
“A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.”
“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.”
“Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.”
“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
“If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.”
“Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.”
“In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.”