Society Quotes
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.Thomas Fulle
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.Robertson Davies
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.B. J. Gupta
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.Lyndon B. Johnson
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.Randolph Bourne
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.Irv Kupcinet
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.Johathan Edwards
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.Richard M. Nixon
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.Thomas Jefferson
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.Howard Mumford Jones
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.A Bartlett Giamatti
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.Mignon McLaughlin
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.Unknown
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
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
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.George Whitehead
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.John C. Sawhill
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.George Orwell
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.John Lah
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
