What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
Dean Koontz

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
Tyra Banks

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil Armstrong

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

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden