Society Quotes
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.Greek prove
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
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.Erik Pepke
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.Roger Sta
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
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
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 forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.Jawaharlal Nehru
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
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Marilyn Manson
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
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
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
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.Howard Mumford Jones
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.John F Kennedy
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
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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
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
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
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.
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
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
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
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
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
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
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
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
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
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
