Society Quotes

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Frost

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Thomas Szas

There are four varieties in society; the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Hippolyte Taine

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Lin Yutang

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

Swami Nirmalananda

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Randolph Bourne

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women

Angela Davis

I think the first duty of society is justice

Alexander Hamilton

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a hospital of incurables

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

John Haynes Holmes

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Charles Lamb

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

J. Krishnamurti

Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what its told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.

Chris Anderson

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Maya Angelou

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Andre Gide

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