Society Quotes
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.George F. Will
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.Euell Gibbons
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.Karl Kraus
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.Dean Inge
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.Rule of Life
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.Marya Mannes
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.Jessamyn West
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
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
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.Cyril Northcote Parkinson
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.Kathleen Norris
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
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.William Ralph Inge
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.James Dean
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
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.Krishnamurti
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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)
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
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.Alexis Carrel
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
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
