Society Quotes
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
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
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.Thomas Jefferson
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.Charles de Montesquieu
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
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
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
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.Unknown
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
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.George F. Will
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Marilyn Manson
Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.Albert Einstein
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.Jawaharlal Nehru
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.Johann von Goethe
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
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 activity that adversely affects society is immoral.B. J. Gupta
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
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.Greek prove
