Society Quotes

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

Every society honours its live 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, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Arthur Balfour

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

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

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