Famous Quotes: Society

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
Use this quote  

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
Use this quote  

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Use this quote  

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.
Use this quote  

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
Use this quote  

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
Use this quote  

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Use this quote  

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Use this quote  

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Use this quote  

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Use this quote  

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Use this quote  

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Use this quote  

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Use this quote  

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Use this quote  

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Use this quote  

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
Use this quote  

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Use this quote  

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Use this quote  

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Use this quote  

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Use this quote