Tom Shadyac Quotes

Society is one word, but many things.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

It is a community of purpose that constitutes society.

You can't get along in society without an identity.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

There is no such thing as society…There are individuals, men and women, and there are families.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

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

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Science of Society

The country is the people.