Society Quotes

  • We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.Upload to Facebook
    We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
    ~ Carl Sagan
  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.Upload to Facebook
    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
    ~ John F. Kennedy
  • Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.Upload to Facebook
    Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
    ~ Howard Zinn
  • When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When .4k you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them but protect them against you -When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.Upload to Facebook
    When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When .4k you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them but protect them against you -When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
    ~ Ayn Ryand
  • If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat,
while most of the other monkeys starved,
scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it.
When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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    If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
    ~ Nathalie Robin
  • Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.Upload to Facebook
    Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
    ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • A great revolution of character in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society, and further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.Upload to Facebook
    A great revolution of character in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society, and further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
    ~ Daisaku Ikeda
  • Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.Upload to Facebook
    Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
    ~ John Locke
  • If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.Upload to Facebook
    If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
    ~ Desmond Tutu
  • In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories and steps, 
be a rebel and count your blessings instead.Upload to Facebook
    In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories and steps, be a rebel and count your blessings instead.
    ~ Lisa Heckman