Quotes about Society

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Human beings are by their nature social and political, living in community even more than every other animal.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

What's the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?" One time a student answered, "I don't know, and I don't care!

difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.

The welfare of the people is the highest law

More specifically, this usefulness is usually defined in terms of functioning for the benefit of society. But today's society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.

But today's society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.

Our industrialized society is out to satisfy all needs, and our consumer society is even out to create needs in order to satisfy them; but the most human of all human needs—the need to see a meaning in one's life—remains unsatisfied. People may have enough to live by; but more often than not they do not have anything to live for.