Society Quotes
Society is like a stew. If you don t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.Society
Abbey, Edward
1927-1989 American Writer
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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Acton, Lord
1834-1902 British Historian
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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Adams, Henry Brooks
1838-1918 American Historian
The happiness of society is the end of government.
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Adams, John
1735-1826 Second President of the USA
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
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Baldwin, James
1924-1987 American Author
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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Beauvoir, Simone De
1908-1986 French Novelist Essayist
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Bronte, Emily
1818-1848 British Novelist Poet
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
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Burke, Edmund
1729-1797 British Political Writer Statesman
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
1741-1794 French Writer Journalist Playwright
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
1741-1794 French Writer Journalist Playwright
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
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Chomsky, Noam
1928 American Linguist Political Activist
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
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Custine, Marquis De
1790-1857 French Traveler Author
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
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DeFord, Frank
American Sportswriter
Man s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body s yoke, but is subject to that of society.
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Durkheim, Emile
1858-1917 French Sociologist
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Society is a hospital of incurables.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
To be social is to be forgiving.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
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George, Henry
1839-1897 American Social Reformer Economist
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A s to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.
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Hayakawa, S. I.
1902-1992 Canadian Born American Senator Educator
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.
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Ibsen, Henrik
1828-1906 Norwegian Dramatist
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Inge, Dean William R.
1860-1954 Dean of St Paul's London
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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Ionesco, Eugene
1912 Romanian-born French Playwright
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
1908-1973 Thirty-sixth President of the USA
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Kupcinet, Irv
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
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Lin Yu-tang
1895-1976 Chinese Writer and Philologist
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor s wife.
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Macaulay, Thomas B.
1800-1859 American Essayist and Historian
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Marx, Karl
1818-1883 German Political Theorist Social Philosopher
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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Miller, Henry
1891-1980 American Author
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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Minsky, Marvin
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.
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Owens, Jesse
1913-1980 American Olympic Track Athlete
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
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Russell, George W.
1867-1935 Irish Poet Essayist Artist
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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Santayana, George
1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Schlegel, Friedrich
1772-1829 German Philosopher Critic Writer
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
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Sedgwick, Henry
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)
1904-1990 American Psychologist
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
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Smith, Roy L.
American Clergyman
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Solanis, Valerie
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.
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Sontag, Susan
1933 American Essayist
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Stevenson, Adlai E.
1900-1965 American Lawyer Politician
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
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Syrus, Publilius
1st Century BC Roman Writer
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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Tagore, Rabindranath
1861-1941 Indian Poet Philosopher
You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
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Tahanie
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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Thatcher, Margaret
1925 British Stateswoman Prime Minister (1979-90)
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
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Unknown, Source
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can t get into it do that.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
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Wright, Ronald