Society Quotes

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.

“All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.”

Desmond Tutu

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“You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.”

Kathleen Turner

“The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.”

Emma Thompson

“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.”

Jeb Bush

“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”

Christopher Lasch

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”

Barbara Jordan

“Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?”

Milton Friedman

“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.”

David Rockefeller

“I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”

Mike Tyson

“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“Everything in our society is so purposeful.”

Sara Blakely

“If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.”

Jonathan Kozol

“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”

John F. Kennedy

“Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.”

Scott Adams

“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.”

J. J. Abrams

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