Society Quotes

Henry van dyke - half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane...
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lah
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling
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
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
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
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
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
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca
Albert einstein, out of my later years - the point is to develop the childlike inclination...
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
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Sta
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardne
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
Jimmy carte - the measure of a society is found in how they...
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
Rule of Life
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
Rollo May
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
George Crabbe
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
Ruth Nanda Anshen
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell