Society Quotes
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.Krishnamurti
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.John Lah
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
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
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
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
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Marilyn Manson
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.Irv Kupcinet
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.Marya Mannes
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
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.Karl Kraus
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.William Ralph Inge
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.Robertson Davies
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.Thomas Fulle
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.Mignon McLaughlin
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
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
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)
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
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.Peter Drucke
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.Greek Prove
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
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.Aristotle, Politics
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
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)
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.Ayn Rand
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
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle, Politics
