Societies Quotes

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.