Society Quotes

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If y...

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone wa...

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. ...

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected...

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival ha...

I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and ...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudde...

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. ...

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him a...

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - fla...

Society, you're a crazy breed.

I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak...

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; a...

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story ...

It was before him again in its completeness -- the choice in which she was content to rest: in the s...

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, tho...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a pa...

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And ...

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repress...

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human bei...

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ...

Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The Unite...

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. ...

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, s...

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that ...

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that...

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

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

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of...

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer...

the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards ...

People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the quest...

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress i...

Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives...

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth ...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have...

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow...

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of...

It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserve...

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We li...

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race...

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l...

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there i...

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can...

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the id...

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in so...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of s...

Music is always a commentary on society.

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality ...

Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the li...

The limited circle is pure.

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, alt...

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride th...

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

Quand on parle des vices d’un homme, si on vous dit : “Tout le monde le dit” ne le croyez pas ; si l...

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...

The word Familia did not originally signify the ideal of our modern philistine, which is a compound ...

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man...

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the s...

When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiri...

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes vir...

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the ...

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as chi...

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualificati...

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...

Society is neither my master nor my servant, neither my father nor my sister; and so long as she doe...

The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all econ...

People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their comple...

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of ...