The Society Quotes

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society

We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.