Society Quotes

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

Susan Sontag

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

Henry David Thoreau

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Olof Palme

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Barbara Jordan

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Stella Adler

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Herbert Read

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Walter Lippmann

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Kevin Smith

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

Tom Vilsack

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Isaac Asimov

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Raymond Chandler

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

J. C. Watts

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Frank DeFord

Society is at odds with itself.

Clint Eastwood

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Aldous Huxley

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Plato

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

Lester Bangs

...eaven for climate, Hell for society.

Mark Twain