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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
10 other thoughts from William Ralph Inge
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
11 views from David Ogilvy
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
8 sayings from Stokely Carmichael
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.
14 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Hardy
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
20 views from Christopher Lasch
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
21 sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
20 thoughts from Christopher Lasch
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
16 more quotes from Vince Lombardi
Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
9 wisdom & wit from Adam Smith
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
21 more wisdom & wit from Mignon McLaughlin
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
20 sayings from Christopher Lasch
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
10 sayings from Emma Goldman
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
10 views from Emma Goldman
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
14 more quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
3 quotes from Edward Bond
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
6 views from Emily Bronte
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
8 other thoughts from William Makepeace Thackeray
It is not a fragrant world.
8 thoughts from Raymond Chandler
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
3 quotes from Edward Bond
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
8 more sayings from Raymond Chandler
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
4 views from C. Northcote Parkinson
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
19 thoughts from Alexis de Tocqueville
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
3 wisdom & wit from Edward Bond
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
27 more views from Dave Barry
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
What's done to children, they will do to society.
3 wisdom & wit from Karl A. Menninger
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
2 thoughts from Theodore Parker
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
10 other thoughts from Luc de Clapiers
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
2 more thoughts from C. Wright Mills
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
5 other wisdom & wit from Charles Horton Cooley
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
3 quotes from Alex Haley
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
5 other quotes from Charles Horton Cooley
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
15 more wisdom & wit from John Locke
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
26 views from Jean de la Bruyere
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 views from J. B. Priestley
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
8 sayings from Charles Kuralt
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
8 views from Walter Lippmann
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
10 other quotes from Ludwig von Mises
No emancipation without that of society.
26 views from Theodor Adorno
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
26 other thoughts from Theodor Adorno
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
24 wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
7 more wisdom & wit from Pope Paul VI
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
8 wisdom & wit from Charles Kuralt
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
18 quotes from John Adams
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
8 sayings from Thomas Browne
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
18 more quotes from John Adams
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
6 quotes from Timothy Leary
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
2 other views from Michel Foucault
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
16 thoughts from Denis Diderot
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
4 quotes from Lin Yutang
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
4 sayings from A. J. Liebling
The happiness of society is the end of government.
18 sayings from John Adams
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
6 quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
100 more thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
8 wisdom & wit from Lewis Mumford
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
2 more sayings from Oliver Tambo
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
29 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
2 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Lancaster
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
52 other quotes from Albert Camus
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
98 other sayings from Mark Twain
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
11 quotes from Aneurin Bevan
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
3 more quotes from Lewis Thomas
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
6 thoughts from Johann Kaspar Lavater
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
29 more thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
78 quotes from Voltaire
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
9 more quotes from Pope John XXIII
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
11 other views from Jawaharlal Nehru
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
3 more quotes from Abbie Hoffman
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
52 more wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
2 other quotes from Roland Barthes
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 thoughts from Carl Sagan
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
12 other views from Mao Zedong
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
7 views from Herbert Read
Music is always a commentary on society.
12 more thoughts from Frank Zappa
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
7 sayings from Herbert Read
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
46 thoughts from George Santayana
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
7 wisdom & wit from Herbert Read
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
5 more views from Anwar Sadat
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
18 quotes from Margaret Mead
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
7 more wisdom & wit from Herbert Read
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
2 wisdom & wit from J. Edgar Hoover
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
6 more quotes from Jacob Bronowski
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
75 other quotes from Aristotle
I think the first duty of society is justice.
13 sayings from Alexander Hamilton
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
17 other quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
24 quotes from Carl Sandburg
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
37 thoughts from Edmund Burke
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
12 more views from Simone de Beauvoir
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
10 more views from Edward Abbey
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
36 other views from Lord Byron
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
10 more sayings from Charles de Secondat
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
21 quotes from Abu Bakr
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
2 more quotes from Robert W. Service
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
26 more thoughts from E. M. Forster
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
2 more sayings from Olof Palme
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
16 quotes from Isaac Asimov
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
12 quotes from Daniel Webster
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
24 views from Franklin D. Roosevelt
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
2 thoughts from Stella Adler
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
22 thoughts from Henry Adams
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
14 other sayings from Jessica Savitch
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
24 other views from Ayn Rand
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
45 other sayings from John Ruskin
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
14 more quotes from Bertolt Brecht
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
31 sayings from Thomas Paine
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
24 more quotes from James Russell Lowell
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
31 wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
26 wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
7 wisdom & wit from Georges Bernanos
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
9 wisdom & wit from Alfred Adler
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
7 other quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
7 sayings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
9 other quotes from William S. Burroughs
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
25 other wisdom & wit from Simone Weil
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
27 sayings from James Madison
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
2 thoughts from Kenneth Grahame
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
11 sayings from Henrik Ibsen
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
8 thoughts from Malcolm Muggeridge
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
7 thoughts from B. F. Skinner
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
16 more thoughts from Erich Fromm
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
11 views from Henrik Ibsen
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
11 wisdom & wit from Henrik Ibsen
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
11 other views from Henrik Ibsen
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
5 sayings from Robert Casey
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
16 quotes from Erich Fromm
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
6 quotes from B. R. Ambedkar
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
2 thoughts from A. Bartlett Giamatti
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
9 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
2 quotes from Herb Caen
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
14 other wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
6 quotes from Mary Wollstonecraft
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
6 other quotes from Mary Wollstonecraft
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
20 sayings from Herbert Spencer
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
11 wisdom & wit from Nicolas Chamfort
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
18 other wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
11 quotes from Nicolas Chamfort
The great hope of society is in individual character.
11 more views from William Ellery Channing
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
6 quotes from Rollo May
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
17 quotes from John Burroughs
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
9 more quotes from John Cheever
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
21 other wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
26 sayings from Sigmund Freud
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
3 more wisdom & wit from Alfred Austin
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
46 more wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
21 other wisdom & wit from Karl Marx
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
9 more quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
9 more views from Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
53 more wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
23 sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
53 more thoughts from Honore de Balzac
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
21 quotes from Karl Marx
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
2 other views from Randolph Bourne
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 quotes from John Clayton
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
15 wisdom & wit from Orson Welles
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
11 other wisdom & wit from John Stuart Mill
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
24 views from James A. Baldwin
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
16 quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey