Society

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. – Jesse Helms

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

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. – Walter Lippmann

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. – John Hodgman

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. – Mikhail Bakunin

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. – Naomi Wolf

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. – Anna Deavere Smith

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. – Bear Grylls

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. – Barbara Kingsolver

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. – Rutherford B. Hayes

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. – Ian Somerhalder

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? – Ingrid Newkirk

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves. – Curt Schilling

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. – Jodie Foster

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman