Society Quotes
Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.Guindon cartoon caption
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
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
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.John Lah
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
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
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.William Ralph Inge
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.Jawaharlal Nehru
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
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
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.Saint Augustine
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
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
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
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident - - The luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.Edward C. Banfield
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.Friedrich August von Hayek
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Marilyn Manson
