952 private quotes tagged society

“I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.”— Hilary Swank

“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.”— Mark Skousen

“My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.”— John Woolman

“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”— Henri Frederic Amiel

“In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.”— Jonathan Sacks

“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”— Pope John XXIII

“I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.”— Ednita Nazario

“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”— Pope John Paul II

“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.”— Anwar Sadat

“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?”— Terry Pratchett

“The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.”— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”— Stephen Covey

“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”— Christopher Lasch

“Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.”— Amos Bronson Alcott

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.”— Garrett Hardin

“There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.”— Jacqueline Bisset

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”— Dennis Prager

“Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.”— Dennis Prager

“It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.”— Martha Plimpton

“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.”— Lauryn Hill

“Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.”— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.”— Talcott Parsons

“We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.”— Jonathan Sacks

“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.”— James Earl Jones