Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Jim Carrey

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Alain de Botton

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang

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

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
Julia Roberts

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
Shel Silverstein

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza

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

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Rob Walton

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
Rob Walton

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
Kate Winslet

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Bertolt Brecht