Society Quotes

Public utility is often served by the injury of individuals.

Jean Louis Guez de Balzac

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Paul Alexander Baran

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Nicolas Chamfort

Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.

Nicolas Chamfort

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

J. Krishnamurti

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Maya Angelou

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frdric Bastiat

I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Jane Bront

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

David William Donald Cameron

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Nick Cave

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

Nicolas Chamfort

We see here a model social state like the one we are beginning to create.

Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras

Society : an inferno of saviors.

Emil Cioran

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.

Emil Cioran

Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

Madonna Louise Ciccone
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