Society Quotes
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.Ayn Rand
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.Saint Augustine
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.Brian Aldiss
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
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
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.Unknown
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.Francis Quarles
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.Wendell Willkie
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
The society of women is the element of good manners.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.Harold Taylo
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.William Ralph Inge
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.Peter Drucke
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.Irv Kupcinet
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
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
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.Friedrich August von Hayek
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.Margaret Mead
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
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
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.Robert A. Heinlein
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.George Santayana
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.Marilyn Manson
