Society Quotes
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
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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
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
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
I greet you as the shapers of American society.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
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
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.Kathleen Norris
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
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
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.John C. Sawhill
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
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
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
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
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
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
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
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
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
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
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
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.Georges Bernanos, "Why Freedom? " The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos, 1955
