Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

society

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

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.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

It is not a fragrant world.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

What's done to children, they will do to society.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

No emancipation without that of society.

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.