Society Quotes

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Arthur Balfour

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

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

Sebastien Chamfort

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Abigail Adams

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

Erik Pepke

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon.

Octavio Paz

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Henry David Thoreau

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers

David Boaz

Music is always a commentary on society.

Frank Zappa

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.

D.H. Lawrence

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Ludwig Von Mises

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

Barbara Levy Boxer

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Anthony Michael

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society.

Andr Breton

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

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