Society Quotes
29 quotations about Society
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
To be social is to be forgiving.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Authors on Society
Lord Acton
John Adams
Henri Frederic Amiel
Simone De Beauvoir
Lord Byron
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Frank DeFord
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Henrik Ibsen
Dean William R. Inge
Irv Kupcinet
George Santayana
Friedrich Schlegel
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
Valerie Solanis
Adlai E. Stevenson
Publilius Syrus
Rabindranath Tagore