Society Quotes

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

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.

Unknown

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

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

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Unknown

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

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

Society is now one polished horde, - - - Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron, Don Juan

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffe

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Charles de Montesquieu

Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.

B. J. Gupta

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

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

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

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky