Best Quotes about Society
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Custine, Marquis De
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
DeFord, Frank
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.
Durkheim, Emile
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Marx, Karl
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Minsky, Marvin
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Burke, Edmund
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
Freud, Sigmund
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Inge, Dean William R.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Beauvoir, Simone De
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Hugo, Victor
Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
George, Henry
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Ionesco, Eugene
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
Sedgwick, Henry
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.
Sontag, Susan
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Wilde, Oscar
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Adams, John
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Hoffer, Eric
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
Baldwin, James
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Thatcher, Margaret
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
Carlyle, Thomas
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Thoreau, Henry David
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
Syrus, Publilius
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
Smith, Roy L.
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
Macaulay, Thomas B.
You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
Tahanie
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.
Ibsen, Henrik
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
Russell, George W.
To be social is to be forgiving.
Frost, Robert
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Wright, Ronald
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
Chomsky, Noam
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Bronte, Emily
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Tagore, Rabindranath
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Schlegel, Friedrich
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.
Hayakawa, S. I.
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
Lippmann, Walter
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)
A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
Lin Yu-tang
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Miller, Henry
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