Society Quotes

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
William M. Evarts
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Jimmy carte - the measure of a society is found in how they...
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.
Richard M. Nixon
John fitzgerald kennedy - if art is to nourish the roots of our culture,...
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
Margaret Mead
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
Ayn Rand
Theodore roosevelt - to educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is...
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
George F. Will
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
James Madison
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.
John Dingell
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
Peter Drucke
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
Greek prove
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
James Dean
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Prove
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lah
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Saint Augustine
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.
John Stuart Mill
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
Francis Quarles
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
Milton Friedman