Society Quotes
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.Unknown
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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)
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.Jose Ortega y Gasset
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.John F Kennedy
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
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
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
I greet you as the shapers of American society.Lyndon B. Johnson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.Harold Taylo
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
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
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
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.Robert Cecil
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.Albert Einstein
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
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.Brian Tracy
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
