Society Quotes
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
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.Johann von Goethe
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.Greek prove
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
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
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
The society of women is the element of good manners.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.Unknown
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
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
Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.B. J. Gupta
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
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
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.William M. Evarts
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.Erik Pepke
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
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.John F Kennedy
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.Dean Inge
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
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
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.John C. Sawhill
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.Jawaharlal Nehru
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.George Orwell
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.Brian Tracy
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
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
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.Marilyn Manson
