Society Quotes

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the ...

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without havi...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society be...

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society bec...

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...

I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin."—Surprising word, I think to myself ne...

Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not...

That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with a...

We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessa...

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health...

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or ...

Everyone belongs to a society, whether he wishes it or not, whether he chooses it or not, whether he...

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of...

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leader...

The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figm...

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and w...

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the...

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

We’re naked under our clothes; we both know what it’s like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be...

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight ...

True freedom comes from being unknown.

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts kna...

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accoun...

The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the bird...

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom a...

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but ...

I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of go...

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or ...

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the dev...

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can reg...

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and p...

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of so...

Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of li...

Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of li...

Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of li...

Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of li...

I don’t think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it’s not acceptable, you h...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

Yet while I do this work because of my faith, I also recognize of course that in a pluralistic socie...

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to ...

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, ...

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because th...

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. I...

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything tha...

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help ...

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rud...

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give...

Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was ...

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty...

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public ge...

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist t...

We should look closely on what is happening at the moment, guys with little moustaches can pop up ev...

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age a...

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, G...

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even ...

A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adju...

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not kn...

People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surpl...

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from actin...

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, h...

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibili...

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that peo...

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as function...

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered f...

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our...

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is...

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. ...

No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost o...

Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman'...

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the...

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You'r...

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to...

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsib...

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encounter...

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment...