Society Quotes
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.Carl Sandburg
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.Friedrich August von Hayek
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
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.Brian Aldiss
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.E. B. White
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
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
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
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
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.John C. Sawhill
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.Erik Pepke
Society is now one polished horde, - - - Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.Lord Byron, Don Juan
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
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle, Politics
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
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
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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
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
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.Albert Einstein
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.B. J. Gupta
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.John Lah
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.Kathleen Norris
Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.Guindon cartoon caption
