Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Olof Palme

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Potter Stewart

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

Paul Watson

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Richard J. Daley

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

Robert Greenwald

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

Roger Goodell

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

Salman Khurshid

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Serge Lang

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.

Stephanie March

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Salman Rushdie

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Sebastiao Salgado

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

Timothy Noah

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

Tim Robbins

My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

Tony La Russa

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Ted Turner

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Umberto Eco

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi