Society Quotes
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.Alexis Carrel
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
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
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.William Makepeace Thackery
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.Albert Einstein
The society of women is the element of good manners.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
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
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.E. B. White
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.Lyndon B. Johnson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.John Lah
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.Kathleen Norris
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.Robert Cecil
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.Peter Drucke
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
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
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.George Santayana
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
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
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
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
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
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
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.Eric Hoffe
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince Lombardi
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
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
