Society Quotes
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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)
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
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.Johann von Goethe
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.John Dingell
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.Euell Gibbons
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.Eric Hoffe
Society is now one polished horde, - - - Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.Lord Byron, Don Juan
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
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
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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
The society of women is the element of good manners.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
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
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
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
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.Henry Van Dyke
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
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
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
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.Walter Lippmann
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.Greek Prove
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.Greek prove
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
