Society

Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. – John Ralston Saul

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. – Friedrich August von Hayek

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. – H. Rap Brown

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. – Baldwin Spencer

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. – Yoko Ono

Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. – Louis Althusser

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. – Ibrahim Babangida

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. – Michel Foucault

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. – Christopher Lasch

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. – Herbert Read

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. – Sally Ride

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. – James Buchan

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation. – Daisaku Ikeda

What we do as a society is seek simple answers. – Dean Koontz

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. – V. S. Naipaul

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. – Salman Rushdie

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. – Pervez Musharraf