Quotes about society

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.

— Edward Abbey

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

— Lord Acton

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

— Henry Brooks Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.

— John Adams

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

— Aristotle

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.

— James Baldwin

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

— Simone De Beauvoir

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.

— Emily Bronte

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.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Lord Byron

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.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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.

— Noam Chomsky

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

— Marquis De Custine

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

— Frank DeFord

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.

— Emile Durkheim

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a hospital of incurables.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Sigmund Freud

To be social is to be forgiving.

— Robert Frost

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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.

— Henry George

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.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

— Eric Hoffer

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Henrik Ibsen

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

— Dean William R. Inge

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.

— Eugene Ionesco

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

— Irv Kupcinet

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

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.

— Walter Lippmann

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Karl Marx

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.

— Henry Miller

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!

— Marvin Minsky

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

— Jesse Owens

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.

— George W. Russell

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

— George Santayana

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

— Friedrich Schlegel

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

— Henry Sedgwick

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

— Roy L. Smith

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

— Valerie Solanis

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

— Publilius Syrus

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

— Rabindranath Tagore

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.

— Tahanie

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

— Margaret Thatcher

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

— Henry David Thoreau

A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.

— Source Unknown

Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

— Ronald Wright

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

— Robert Owen

Capitalism isn’t the problem and neither is Socialism, its people, specific people, that are wrecking society.

— James Dye

The problem with society is that happiness and intelligence are rarely found in the same person. I guess that's why they say ignorance is bliss.

— Anonymous

Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society.

— Eric Parslow

i will not say money is everything but without money you are nothing

— shafiq Sahak

As Hurricane Sandy clearly demonstrated, there is a woeful lack of redundancy in the nation’s health care facilities. However, take solace in knowing there are no lack of choices in those things the advertisers convince us should matter more. For example, right now, you can purchase at least FIVE different varieties of perfume by Paris Hilton at your local mall so, even if you can no longer find a single hospital anywhere nearby, the good news is we live in a society where you’ll never lack for options to smell good while you suffer in pain.

— Catman Cohen

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— Albert Einstein

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.

— Susan Sontag

“Seek the goodness in everyone, evil will die itself”

— Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist)